The Resource Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe
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- Summary
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- Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis
- The Sacklers are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Keefe begins with the three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments, devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. Forty years later the template he created to sell Valium was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. -- adapted from jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 535 pages
- Contents
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- Prologue: The taproot
- Patriarch. A good name ; The asylum ; Med man ; Penicillin for the blues ; China fever ; The octopus ; The Dendur derby ; Estrangement ; Ghost marks ; To thwart the inevitability of death
- Dynasty. Apollo ; Heir apparent ; Matter of Sackler ; The ticking clock ; God of dreams ; H-bomb ; Sell, sell, sell ; Ann Hedonia ; The Pablo Escobar of the new millennium ; Take the fall
- Legacy. Turks ; Tamperproof ; Ambassadors ; It's a hard truth, ain't it ; Temple of greed ; Warpath ; Named defendants ; The phoenix ; Unnaming
- Afterword
- Isbn
- 9780385697545
- Label
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Title
- Empire of pain
- Title remainder
- the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Statement of responsibility
- Patrick Radden Keefe
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis
- The Sacklers are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Keefe begins with the three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments, devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. Forty years later the template he created to sell Valium was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. -- adapted from jacket
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1976-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Dewey number
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- 929.20973
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- CT274.S175
- LC item number
- K44 2021
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sackler family
- Sackler, Arthur M.
- Rich people
- Purdue Pharma L.P
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Label
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-515) and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: The taproot -- Patriarch. A good name ; The asylum ; Med man ; Penicillin for the blues ; China fever ; The octopus ; The Dendur derby ; Estrangement ; Ghost marks ; To thwart the inevitability of death -- Dynasty. Apollo ; Heir apparent ; Matter of Sackler ; The ticking clock ; God of dreams ; H-bomb ; Sell, sell, sell ; Ann Hedonia ; The Pablo Escobar of the new millennium ; Take the fall -- Legacy. Turks ; Tamperproof ; Ambassadors ; It's a hard truth, ain't it ; Temple of greed ; Warpath ; Named defendants ; The phoenix ; Unnaming -- Afterword
- Control code
- on1243902032
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 535 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385697545
- Lccn
- 2021931473
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1243902032
- Label
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-515) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: The taproot -- Patriarch. A good name ; The asylum ; Med man ; Penicillin for the blues ; China fever ; The octopus ; The Dendur derby ; Estrangement ; Ghost marks ; To thwart the inevitability of death -- Dynasty. Apollo ; Heir apparent ; Matter of Sackler ; The ticking clock ; God of dreams ; H-bomb ; Sell, sell, sell ; Ann Hedonia ; The Pablo Escobar of the new millennium ; Take the fall -- Legacy. Turks ; Tamperproof ; Ambassadors ; It's a hard truth, ain't it ; Temple of greed ; Warpath ; Named defendants ; The phoenix ; Unnaming -- Afterword
- Control code
- on1243902032
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 535 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385697545
- Lccn
- 2021931473
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1243902032
Subject
- Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices
- Pharmaceutical industry -- Marketing
- Purdue Pharma L.P
- Rich people -- United States -- Biography
- Sackler family
- Sackler, Arthur M. -- Family
- Biographies
- Family histories
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- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Audio Nonfiction
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Business
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Hardcover Nonfiction
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