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Opioid Crisis

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Artist Drops 800-Pound Heroin Spoon Outside OxyContin Manufacturer’s Headquarters

by Sarah Rose Sharp June 26, 2018February 16, 2021

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]

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 12, 2018July 24, 2018

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

by Elena Goukassian January 11, 2018July 24, 2018

The secretive family whose pharmaceutical company hid the addictive effects of OxyContin also funds dozens of museums and universities.

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How Some of the World’s Biggest Art Patrons Contributed to the Opioid Crisis

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz October 23, 2017

The Sackler family funds spaces in several major museums, including the Guggenheim, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The pharmaceutical titans also contributed to the US’s crushing opioid epidemic.

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