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From KQED.

From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, this is Forum. I'm Lily Jamali. Nearly half a million Americans died from opioid abuse between 1999 and 2019,

and one family's name has become synonymous with that crisis.

The Sacklers, who own Purdue Pharma, built their wealth promoting the blockbuster

addictive painkiller OxyContin.

The company continues to face civil litigation for their role in helping ignite the

epidemic of opioid addiction.

Journalist Patrick Radin-Keefe joins us to talk about his new book, Empire of Pain, which

chronicles the history of the Sackler family and critically examines corporate ethics in the

pharmaceutical industry.

That's next on Forum right after this news.

Welcome to F. I'm Lily Jamali. In the 1990s, Purdue Pharma began aggressively marketing its drug OxyContin.

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