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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 .
David Sackler, once on the board of Purdue Pharma, ... Raymond's grandson and his wife bought a sprawling $7.4 million mansion near Boca Raton in ... David's father Richard ran Purdue Pharma ...
Mortimer Sackler was the second son of Jewish immigrants Isaac Sackler, born in what is now Ukraine, and Sophie (née Greenberg) Sackler from Poland. [4] His father was a grocer in Brooklyn, where Sackler attended Erasmus Hall High School. [4] He had two brothers; [5] Arthur, the oldest of the three, died in 1987, and Raymond, the youngest ...
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.
At the time of the drug's 1996 launch, Richard Sackler, a son of Raymond who was then a Purdue executive and later became president and board chair, told the company’s sales force at a meeting ...
Raymond Sackler KBE (February 16, 1920 – July 17, 2017) [1] was an American physician and businessman. He acquired Purdue Pharma together with his brothers Arthur M. Sackler and Mortimer Sackler. Purdue Pharma is the developer of OxyContin, the drug at the center of the opioid epidemic in the United States. [2] [3] [4]