num_pages: 441
description: The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family by the prize-winning bestselling author of Say Nothing. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard the Metropolitan Museum of Art Oxford the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague however until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing OxyContin a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis.Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.
language: English
title: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
publisher: Doubleday