In a trial in Oklahoma, records showed the firm was consulted about sales at a time when abuse of pain medicine was widespread. Cases in two other states also shed light on its role. Source: NYT > Business – Walt Bogdanich
Louvre Removes Sackler Family Name From Its Walls
Signs and plaques honoring a donation from the family, which has been linked to the opioid crisis in the United States, were taken down or covered at the Paris museum. Source: NYT > Business – Alex Marshall
Louvre Removes Sackler Family Name From Its Walls
Signs and plaques honoring a donation from the family, which has been linked to the opioid crisis in the United States, were taken down or covered at the Paris museum. Source: NYT > Business – Alex Marshall
The Met Will Turn Down Sackler Money Amid Fury Over the Opioid Crisis
The decision by one of the world’s leading museums could spur other institutions to turn down philanthropy from the family behind OxyContin. Source: NYT > Business – ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
Elizabeth Warren, Unveiling Opioid Plan, Says She Will Give Sackler Family’s Donations to Charity
Ms. Warren, a Democratic presidential candidate, also called on Harvard University to remove the pharmaceutical family’s name from its campus buildings. Source: NYT > Business – ASTEAD W. HERNDON
The Giants at the Heart of the Opioid Crisis
Civil suits filed by three states accuse pharmaceutical distributors of flooding the country with opioids while devising systems to evade regulators. Source: NYT > Business – DANNY HAKIM, WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and RONI CARYN RABIN