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Patrick Radden Keefe’s account of the family behind the opioid epidemic

In his new book, 'Empire of Pain,' the intrepid reporter examines the story of the Sackler family, who created OxyContin

Philip Montgomery

Patrick Radden Keefe

By his own admission, the intrepid reporter Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has never taken OxyContin, the highly addictive painkiller introduced 25 years ago by the drug manufacturer Purdue Pharma.

But Keefe is more...

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