Without a doubt the opiate epidemic is the worst drug crisis in American history. Today more Americans die from drug overdoses than they do from car accidents. Last year the number of drug overdose deaths rose to an astounding 72,000 – the vast majority of these were opiate or opioid related. Who is the family behind this crisis and what are the facts?
How did we arrive here?
While corrupt doctors and academic institutions can both be blamed, if it hadn’t been for the existence and actions of a certain family, none of this would be going on. That family is the Sackler family – one of America’s wealthiest families.
Raymond and Mortimer Sackler, sons of Jewish immigrants from Galicia and Poland, are the owners of Purdue Pharmaceuticals which is the developer of Oxycontin and the engineer of America’s opiate epidemic. ...
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