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Richard Sackler

(L to R) John Rothman as Mortimer Sackler, Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler, Sam Anderson as Raymond Sackler in episode 3 of 'Painkiller.' (Keri Anderson/Netflix © 2023)
August 10, 2023, 4:46 pm
Netflix’s ‘Painkiller’ is mesmerizing drama about Sackler role in ongoing opioid crisis
Premiering August 10 with a cast led by Matthew Broderick, the six-part series zeroes in on the death and destruction wrought by OxyContin on a community in western Virginia
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Fake pill bottles with messages about Purdue Pharma are displayed during a protest outside the courthouse where the bankruptcy of the company is taking place in White Plains, New York, August, 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
August 19, 2021, 12:21 pm
Ex-Purdue Pharma head Richard Sackler denies responsibility for opioid crisis
In court hearing, he says he does not recall telling employees in 1996 that there will be ‘a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition’
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
In this September 12, 2019, file photo, cars pass Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
October 6, 2019, 7:31 am
Purdue opioid deal blasted as records show $13b. to Sacklers
Many local governments suing pharmaceutical giant over role in opioid crisis say settlement offer doesn’t hold owners accountable for over 400,000 overdose deaths
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
People visit the Sackler Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 28, 2019, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
May 30, 2019, 4:23 pm
Who are the Sacklers, the family at the center of the opioid crisis?
Jewish family, founder of Purdue Pharma and famous for philanthropy, has become notorious for causing mass-scale drug addiction. Will institutions reject their donations?
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: This file photo from February 19, 2013, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vermont. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
March 29, 2019, 1:52 am
New York sues Sackler family, Teva over opioid crisis
State adds family that owns drugmaker and other pharmaceutical firms producing or pushing OxyContin and related painkillers to existing suit against Purdue Pharma
By Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz
In this Aug. 17, 2018 photo, family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses leave pill bottles in protest outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family, in Stamford, Conn. (AP/Jessica Hill)
January 18, 2019, 6:52 am
Opioid crisis has Sackler family and beneficiaries feeling the pain
Prosecution of family-owned firm behind addictive OxyContin drug has some distancing themselves from name, which is still emblazoned on institutions from New York to Tel Aviv
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses protest outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, August 17, 2018. (Jessica Hill/AP)
January 17, 2019, 9:12 am
Opioid painkiller producer misled doctors to boost sales, prosecutor alleges
Richard Sackler accused of urging representatives to encourage healthcare professionals to prescribe highest dosages of OxyContin, increasing profits for his family’s drug firm
By JTA
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