Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe. Patrick is a writer and an investigative journalist. He is published in The New Yorker, Slate, and The New York Times Magazine. Patrick is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
Empire of Pain is certainly an unbelievable and immense work. This brings full circle the Sacklers, Purdue Pharma, and the opioid crisis.
This is the first book of five that I chose to read to understand the crisis. As a result, this serves as the best way to cross over to additional valuable books addressing the opioid crisis.
In fact, the Sacklers via Purdue Pharma, led to millions into addiction. Hundreds of thousands were killed by OxyContin.
In fact, Patrick’s effort is overwhelming to begin with and this makes it the best choice in my opinion. Accordingly, this book is difficult to put down as the stories gain momentum as the crisis is beginning.