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(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
Illustrative: Protesters stage a die-in and have their shapes traced on the sidewalk outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, New York, August 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
October 3, 2022, 10:27 am
Joining wave of institutions, London museum drops Sackler name from exhibits
Victoria and Albert Museum cuts ties from American family blamed for fueling opioid crisis; advocacy group leader Nan Goldin hails ‘big victory’
By ToI Staff
Nan Goldin, left, and director Laura Poitras pose for photographers at the photo call of the film 'All The Beauty and the Bloodshed' during the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, September 3, 2022. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
September 11, 2022, 7:31 pm
Film on campaign to shame Sacklers for opioid crisis wins top Venice prize
Golden Lion award goes to Laura Poitras’s documentary tracing Nan Goldin’s battle against billionaire family; Special Jury prize goes to jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi
By Eric RANDOLPH
The logo for Teva appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, October 21, 2019. (AP Photo/ Richard Drew)
February 8, 2022, 12:06 am
Teva reaches $150 million deal with Texas to settle opioid-related claims
Agreement with US subsidiary of Israeli pharmaceutical giant also requires it to provide $75m-worth of generic medicine doses that aid in opioid addiction and recovery
By Ricky Ben-David
In this Aug. 9, 2021, file photo, Jayde Newton helps to set up cardboard gravestones with the names of victims of opioid abuse outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, N.Y. A federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday, Sept. 1, gave conditional approval to a sweeping, potentially $10 billion plan submitted by OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to settle a mountain of lawsuits over its role in the opioid crisis that has killed a half-million Americans over the past two decades. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
September 2, 2021, 2:23 am
Sacklers to pay $4.5 billion, dissolve Purdue Pharma in opioid settlement
Judge gives conditional approval to deal that will shield Sackler family from further payments and civil lawsuits; profits from new company to go to treat addiction
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
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
Arthur M. Sackler in his office in this undated photo. (Wikimedia commons/ CC BY-SA 2.0/ Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries)
July 5, 2021, 4:19 am
How the Sackler family built a pharma dynasty and fueled an American calamity
In ‘Empire of Pain,’ Patrick Radden Keefe details the humble Jewish immigrant roots of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and how it is evading justice despite being behind the opioid crisis
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: A public health worker demonstrates the use of the overdose-reversal drug Narcan for employees in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 4, 2018. (AP/Matt Rourke/File)
December 15, 2019, 9:26 pm
Pharma empire behind OxyContin now selling overdose cure
International affiliate of Purdue Pharma, widely blamed for US opioid epidemic, marketing new antidote amid cascade of protest and litigation against company
By CLAIRE GALOFARO and Kristen Gelineau
Opioids, addiction, overdose (Illustrative, via iStock)
From the WebNovember 27, 2019, 4:07 pm
US opens criminal probe into opioid makers including Teva, distributors
Reuters: Federal prosecutors are investigating six pharma firms for potential criminal charges regarding the shipping of opioid painkillers that led to healthcare crisis
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