";s:4:"text";s:4684:" This work contributed to a move away from treatments such as electroshock therapy and lobotomy towards pharmaceutical treatment or psychoanalysis. According to The New York Times, the Louvre in Paris was the first major museum to "erase its public association" with the Sackler family name. [1] According to The New Yorker, as of 2017[update] OxyContin, a blockbuster drug "reportedly generated some 35 billion dollars in revenue for Purdue".
It named eight family members: Richard, Jonathan, Mortimer, Kathe, David, Beverly and Theresa Sackler as well as Ilene Sackler Lefcourt.
[5][24] The Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University is named after Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler for their donations. ", "The Sackler Family's Plan to Keep Its Billions", "The OxyContin Clan: The $14 Billion Newcomer to Forbes 2015 List of Richest U.S.
[8] Forbes listed the Sackler family as the 19th wealthiest in the United States in 2016 with a fortune of $13 billion. Many people get started out on Oxycontin or other prescription opioids after routine surgeries, only to become full-blown heroine addicts within a short time. [30][31] In June 2019, NYU Langone Medical Center announced they will no longer be accepting donations from the Sacklers, but have yet to change the name of the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.
His father was a grocer in Brooklyn, where Sackler attended Erasmus Hall High School. degree at the Middlesex University School of Medicine in Massachusetts, United States in 1944. He also gifted the majority of his collections to museums around the world.
1949),[17] from Staffordshire, England who was formerly a teacher at the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion convent in London's Notting Hill Gate. [8], In 1996 Purdue Pharma introduced OxyContin, a version of oxycodone reformulated in a slow-release form. [33], On July 1, 2019, Nan Goldin, an American photographer, the founder of P.A.I.N.,[34] led a small groups of protesters who unfurled a banner "Take down the Sackler name" against the backdrop of the Louvre's glass pyramid. Sackler says disclosure by attorney general meant to ‘torpedo a mutually beneficial settlement’ over Purdue Pharma’s alleged pushing of painkillers, What a Purdue Pharma bankruptcy means for the Sacklers, As part of a court settlement being negotiated with US, wealthy family would give up control of drugmaker accused of fueling opioid crisis, Sackler family and Purdue Pharma to pay billions to settle opioid lawsuits, Tentative agreement reached with thousands of local governments and more than 20 states, could be worth up to $12 billion over time, Purdue Pharma says settlement talks in opioid cases not over, Sackler-owned company has threatened bankruptcy, which could complicate efforts by states and victims to get compensation, Bankruptcy likely for Sackler pharma firm Purdue as opioid settlement talks fail, Family refuses to offer counter-proposal, expected to seek protection from courts as lawsuit against maker of addictive painkiller set to go ahead, Already a member?
The Purdue Frederick Company later became the Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma.