Revisiting 'Empire of Pain'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Dec 15, 2021

[REBROADCAST FROM August 17th, 2021] In light of the removal of the Sackler name from the Met's exhibition spaces, We return to Patrick Radden Keefe's "Full Bio" series on his book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. We talk about the relationship between the Sackler brothers, and the creation of MS Contin, the precursor to OxyContin.

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