The Sackler family is ranked as being the 19th richest family in America. But, that sure hasn’t installed in them a love for helping people. Unlike other families such as the Gates, who at least pretend they care about helping people, the Sackler family keeps their philanthropy limited to the art community.
Unbeknownst to many, the Sackler Family, with assets of $13 billion, the nation’s 19th wealthiest family is one the top players in philanthropy.
You can find the Sackler Gallery in the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C. or visit the Sackler wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The Sackler’s even have a museum at Harvard, Guggenheim, and dozen of universities around the country. If it’s art— the Sackler family has it.
Participating in the art game takes money and a lot of it. So, where does the Sackler money come from?
The money comes from opioids. They make legal versions of deadly mind-altering addictive drugs.
According to Forbes, the “Sacklers continue to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the businesses in 2016– some $700 million last year, by Forbes’ calculations – from an estimated $3 billion in Purdue Pharma revenues plus at least $1.5 billion in sales from their foreign companies”.
The Sackler family created OxyContin.
The family fortune began in 1952 when three doctors — Arthur (d. 1987), Mortimer (d. 2010) and Raymond Sackler — purchased Purdue, then a small and struggling New York drug manufacturer. The company spent decades selling products like earwax remover and laxatives before moving into pain medications by the late 1980s. To create OxyContin, Purdue married oxycodone, a generic painkiller, with a time-release mechanism to combat abuse by spreading the drug’s effects over a half-day.
The FDA approved the medication in 1995 and it soon took off. By 2003 OxyContin sales hit $1.6 billion as the drug helped drive a huge nationwide spike in opioid prescribing. At its peak in 2012, doctors wrote more than 282 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers, including OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet — nearly enough for every American to have a bottle.
I was 13 when I was first prescribed OxyContin. I loved it. It was the most incredible thing I’d experienced at that point in my life. I could just lay there in bed all day but I was happy. I didn’t feel anything (but euphoric or sleepy) and never got bored.
That was almost ten years ago. But, still to this day, the memory of my first taste is embedded into my mind. I know I still want it even though I have no need for it anymore – I am not quite sure if there is any way to explain the feeling to someone who has never experienced this phenomenon firsthand.
That is why opioids are so dangerous. I would never think of trying heroin if I didn’t know it was the chemical cousin of oxycodone. I still wouldn’t but the thought is tempting. I hate needles but the urge to feel that rush again is almost enough to make me not think twice about shooting up.
Do you know how many people have died from opiate-related deaths since the Sackler family introduced Oxytocin to the market?
Continue to the next page to view these sickening graphs PROVING the drug lobby is a part of the establishment working to destroy the people.
It is ruining peoples minds.
If meds r taking the right way dose not happen you have to know what to do for your self to control the pain by not using to much meds
Darwin awards.
Listen. Stop blaming others for peoples ignorance. This medicine helps millions of responsible taking them. If your a weak person you are the one that indulges by snorting and injecting. Stop plying the blame game.
fDA is bought and paid for
I can’t understand why they want to shame everybody who takes opioids for their pain. It makes me sick! There are many people, including myself who take opioids responsibly to control their chronic pain. I don’t sell or give away my pills, and I take them as directed. Those of you who are like me, don’t let anyone shame you into giving up what lessens your pain. The opioid crisis was caused by drug addicts, a pure and simple fact!
Legalize marijuana.