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Richard Stephen Sackler (born March 10, 1945) [1] is an American businessman and physician who was the chairman and president of Purdue Pharma, a former company best known as the developer of OxyContin, whose role in the opioid epidemic in the United States became the subject of many lawsuits and fines, filing for bankruptcy in 2019.
In 2022, Sackler and his son David attended a virtual hearing as part of Purdue's ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, and were required to listen to a series of two dozen statements given by people ...
The Sackler family is an American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma. [1] Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin .
In addition to depicting real people like Purdue Pharma's Richard Sackler and Arthur Sackler, Painkiller uses composite characters to put a human face on the impact of the opioid crisis, including ...
Purdue Pharma L.P., formerly the Purdue Frederick Company (1892–2019), was an American privately held pharmaceutical company founded by John Purdue Gray. It was sold to Arthur , Mortimer , and Raymond Sackler in 1952, and then owned principally by the Sackler family and their descendants.
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits ...
David Sackler formerly served as a Purdue Pharma board member. He and his wife, Joss, live in the Boca Raton-area home. He and his wife, Joss, live in the Boca Raton-area home. Joss is a fashion ...
Richard Sackler was born in 1945 in Roslyn, New York, to Beverly and Raymond Sackler. Raymond Sackler, along with his brothers Arthur and Mortimer Sackler, acquired what became Purdue Pharma in 1952.