From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarco. This is The Daily.

Today, the family that built its fortune on oxycontin has never been held legally accountable

for the opioid epidemic that the drug helped unleash.

Barry Meyer, on why that may soon change.

It's Friday, March 15th.

It's time, Guggenheim. It's time, Guggenheim.

The Guggenheim is one of this country's, and certainly New York's premier museums,

it's the beautiful museum, a spiral-shaped structure that houses a modern art collection.

And in late February, a group of individuals entered the museum, it was the particular night

where entrance was free, and they walked up the spiral structure and they took positions there.

Because of 400,000 and at a predetermined point, they released thousands of small sheets of paper

that looked like the types of prescriptions that a doctor would give you.

They were prescriptions for the drug, oxycontin.

Oxycontin is one of the most powerful and potentially addicting pain killers

ever produced by the pharmaceutical industry.

And when these papers fluggered down through the air, they looked like a snow-blizzard

that settled on the floor.

And then a banner was released that said, shame on Sackler.

Shame on Sackler. Shame on Sackler. Shame on Sackler.

So what exactly is this group protesting? Who is Sackler?

Well, the Sackler name is best known as family that are beneficiaries of the arts.

Their name is tied to the Guggenheim, the American Museum of Natural History.

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