Last week’s House Oversight Committee hearing was the first time members of the Sackler family publicly addressed their alleged role in the epidemic.
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Purdue Pharma Reaches Tentative Settlement in Thousands of Opioid Cases
The family will provide a $3 billion payout over seven years. However, the settlement does not include a statement of wrongdoing.
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Sackler Scion Doesn’t Think the Opioid Epidemic Her Family Profited From Should Impact Her
Responding to a New York Times story about her fashion brand, Joss Sackler accused the publication of “patriarchal efforts” aiming “to undermine women’s empowerment.”
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PAIN Sackler Storms Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museums for Financial Ties to Opioid Manufacturers
The drug policy advocates, led by photographer Nan Goldin, held a covert die-in at the Guggenheim, then marching to the Met to publicly protest on its steps.
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Artist Drops Massive Opioid Spoon at Entrance of Another Sackler-Owned Drug Manufacturer
The Sackler family founded Rhodes Pharma in 2007, just months after pleading guilty to criminal charges that their family company, Purdue Pharma, had mismarketed OxyContin.
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After Sacklers Named in Opioid Lawsuit, Met Museum Says It Will Review Its Donation Policy
The Met’s Sackler Wing has become a site of protest due to its association with the late co-founders of Purdue Pharma, who have been revealed as conscious contributors to the opioid epidemic.
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Museum Creates Program for Families Suffering from the Opioid Crisis
Approximately 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017 alone. For families hurt by addiction, the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire has created an unprecedented program that uses art as a healing tool for those affected by the epidemic in a state that’s ranked third in the nation for drug overdoses.
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Nan Goldin and Drug Policy Activists Protest NY Governor Cuomo’s Inaction
Protesters marched outside the governor’s office near Grand Central Station, carrying a mock overdose prevention center to urge approval of the five pilot prevention centers promised during Cuomo’s election campaign.
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Nan Goldin Selling Signed Prints for $100 to Fight the Opioid Crisis
The artist is donating proceeds from the sale, a collaboration between Magnum Photos and the Aperture Foundation, to her activist group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now).
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Artist Drops 800-Pound Heroin Spoon Outside OxyContin Manufacturer’s Headquarters
Artist Domenic Esposito and gallerist Fernando Luis Alvarez delivered the giant sculpture to the doorstep of drugmaker Purdue Pharma.
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Protesters at Metropolitan Museum Chant “Shame on Sackler,” Targeting Donors Who Profited from Opioid Crisis [UPDATED]
On Saturday, members of the group PAIN Sackler and other organizations gathered at the Temple of Dendur to decry the Metropolitan Museum’s association with the Sackler family’s painkiller fortune.
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Our Incomplete List of Cultural Institutions and Initiatives Funded by the Sackler Family
The secretive family whose pharmaceutical company hid the addictive effects of OxyContin also funds dozens of museums and universities.