Meet the Sackler family.

Purdue Pharma, and by extension some members of the family, have faced criticism and lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin, and Purdue’s role in the Opioid epidemic in America. In 2007, Purdue paid out on one of the largest fines ever levied against a pharmaceutical firm for mislabel-

ing of its product OxyContin, and three

executives were found guilty of criminal Oxycontin, the most charges. Purdue continued to market and

prominent drug produced sell opioids as late as 2019, by Purdue

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They founded and own the pharmaceutical companies Purdue Pharma and Mundipharma

The Sackler family made about $3 billion in profit Members of the Sackler family will pay an every year through their pharmaceutical companies. additional $225 million, and the company will However, in 2019, Purdue filed for Chapter 11 close. The US House of Representatives bankruptcy; and in 2020, reached a introduced a bill in March 2021 to stop the settlement potentially worth $8.3 billion, bankruptcy judge from granting members of admitting that it “knowingly and intentionally the Sackler family legal immunity during the conspired and agreed with others to aid and bankruptcy proceedings, but as of September abet” doctors dispensing medication 2021, it has been ruled that they will be given “without a legitimate medical purpose.” legal immunity.

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