"I thought I understood the Sacklers' opioid empire. Startling documents I found showed I was wrong"
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Originally published in STAT on March 10, 2020 What could possibly be new about the Sackler family, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma? That was a question I asked myself in the late fall of 2015 as I began doing research for the book that would become “Pharma.” The project I had pitched to my publisher was a comprehensive history of the American pharmaceutical industry, starting with patent drugs and finishing with biotechnology breakthroughs. Covering the full breadth of the domestic drug industry in a single, readable volume meant I would have to compress into single chapters many consequential matters that had been the focus of full-length books.
"I thought I understood the Sacklers' opioid empire. Startling documents I found showed I was wrong"
"I thought I understood the Sacklers' opioid…
"I thought I understood the Sacklers' opioid empire. Startling documents I found showed I was wrong"
Originally published in STAT on March 10, 2020 What could possibly be new about the Sackler family, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma? That was a question I asked myself in the late fall of 2015 as I began doing research for the book that would become “Pharma.” The project I had pitched to my publisher was a comprehensive history of the American pharmaceutical industry, starting with patent drugs and finishing with biotechnology breakthroughs. Covering the full breadth of the domestic drug industry in a single, readable volume meant I would have to compress into single chapters many consequential matters that had been the focus of full-length books.