The Sacklers and the OxyContin Crisis (duplicated)

# The Sackler Family Made Ten Billion Dollars While Their Drug Killed Nine Hundred Thousand

Americans One family created the deadliest addiction crisis in American history,

made ten billion dollars, and walked away without a single day in prison.

This is the story of how three brothers turned a twenty-two thousand dollar investment into

a pharmaceutical empire built on lies, addiction, and death.

It starts in a cramped Brooklyn apartment in the nineteen twenties. Isaac Sackler,

a Jewish immigrant grocer, raised three sons who would all become doctors.

Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler seemed destined for respectable