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> in 2019, the Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was sentenced to life in prison by a United States court, and was made to forfeit 12 billion dollars, while the managers of #PurduePharma despite being given three felony convictions, did not go to jail, and the Sacklers retained possession of most of their fortune.
#RaceAndClass #TheSacklers and #ElChapo #ElChapoSacklers
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> It's 2019. The scandal surrounding OxyContin, Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers' role in America's devastating opioid epidemic is front-page news. Hundreds of people are dying every day from overdoses... "the greatest trick they ever pulled was to write the family out of the history of the family business."
#BrianMann on #EmpireOfPain by #PatrickMaddenKeefe #TheSacklersIn the #IbisTrilogy there's a line about how opium is the best way to turn human weakness into gold. #AmitavGhosh