Family That Made a Fortune off National Oxycontin Epidemic Has Just Landed on Forbes’ Richest List
”Say hello to the Sacklers, the newest members of Forbes’ 2015 List of Richest US Families, who collected a fortune from a national opioid addiction epidemic. Worth $14 billion, they’re the 16th richest family in the country. Although they’re richer than the Mellons, the Busches, or the Rockefellers, you’ve probably never heard of them.
But you’ve almost certainly heard about the product that put them in the 1% of the 1%. The Sacklers own 100% of Purdue Pharma, the Stamford, Connecticut-based company that makes Oxycontin, the opiate analgesic that helped spark a new generation of pain pill and heroin addicts.
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