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Pharma [sound recording] : greed, lies, and the poisoning of America / by Posner, Gerald L.,author.(CARDINAL)184413; Roy, Jacques(Jacques David),narrator.(CARDINAL)352041;

Read by Jacques Roy.Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and journalist Gerald Posner brings to life the heroes and villains of the pharmaceutical industry and how a business meant to save lives is steeped in corruption and reckless profiteering, with deadly consequences.

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Purdue Pharma L.P.; Pharmaceutical industry; Pharmaceutical industry;

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Unsettled : how the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy failed the victims of the American overdose crisis / by Hampton, Ryan,author.(CARDINAL)418330; Foster, Claire Rudy,author.(CARDINAL)418331; Aron, Hillel,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Introduction -- Billions served -- A sleeping giant -- The blizzard was coming -- Flesh and blood -- Unchecked power -- The death curve -- Last month's tuna roll -- Lawyers, meds, and money -- Toothless -- "A legal fiction" -- The breaking point -- Conclusion: The way out -- Afterword.In September 2019, Purdue Pharma--the maker of OxyContin and a company controlled by the infamous billionaire Sackler family--filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from 2,600 lawsuits for its role in fueling the U.S. overdose crisis. Author and activist Ryan Hampton served as co-chair of the official creditors committee that acted as a watchdog during the process, one of only four victims appointed among representatives of big insurance companies, hospitals, and pharmacies. He entered the case believing that exposing the Sacklers and mobilizing against Purdue would be enough to right the scales of justice. But he soon learned that behind closed doors, justice had plenty of other competition--and it came with a hefty price tag. Unsettled is the inside story of Purdue's excruciating Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, the company's eventual restructuring, and the Sackler family's evasion of any true accountability. It's also the untold story of how a group of determined ordinary people tried to see justice done against the odds--and in the face of brutal opposition from powerful institutions and even government representatives. Although America was envisioned as an equitable place, where the vulnerable are protected from the greed of the powerful, the corporate-bankruptcy process betrays those values. In its heart of hearts, this system is built to shield the ultra-wealthy, exploit loopholes for political power, promote gross wealth inequality, and allow companies such as Purdue Pharma to run amok. The real story of the Purdue bankruptcy wasn't that the billion-dollar corporation was a villain, a serial federal offender. No matter what the media said, Purdue didn't do this alone. They were aided and abetted by the very systems and institutions that were supposed to protect Americans. Even on-your-side elected officials worked against Purdue's victims--maintaining the status quo at all costs. Americans deserve to know exactly who is responsible for failing to protect people over profits--and what a human life is worth to corporations, billionaires, and lawmakers. Unsettled is what happened behind closed doors--the story of a sick, broken system that destroyed millions of lives and let the Sacklers off almost scot-free.

Subjects: Purdue Pharma L.P.; Pharmaceutical industry; Opioid abuse; Bankruptcy;

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Empire of pain [large print] : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty / by Keefe, Patrick Radden,1976-author.(CARDINAL)469005;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 757-926) and index."The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions-Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing, especially for pharmaceuticals, and bought a small ad firm.Arthur devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer, Purdue Frederick, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art, and wives, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury.Forty years later, Raymond's son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium-co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug's addictiveness-was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die. This is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d'Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama-baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful.Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is a portrait of the excesses of America's second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world's great fortunes."--

Subjects: Large print books.; Family histories.; Biographies.; Sackler family.; Sackler, Arthur M.; Purdue Pharma L.P.; Rich people; Pharmaceutical industry; Pharmaceutical industry;

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Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty / by Keefe, Patrick Radden,1976-author.(CARDINAL)469005;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-515) and index.Prologue: The taproot -- Patriarch. A good name ; The asylum ; Med man ; Penicillin for the blues ; China fever ; The octopus ; The Dendur derby ; Estrangement ; Ghost marks ; To thwart the inevitability of death -- Dynasty. Apollo ; Heir apparent ; Matter of Sackler ; The ticking clock ; God of dreams ; H-bomb ; Sell, sell, sell ; Ann Hedonia ; The Pablo Escobar of the new millennium ; Take the fall -- Legacy. Turks ; Tamperproof ; Ambassadors ; It's a hard truth, ain't it ; Temple of greed ; Warpath ; Named defendants ; The phoenix ; Un-naming -- Afterword."The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of SAY NOTHING The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sackler's were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Family histories.; Sackler, Arthur M.; Sackler family.; Purdue Pharma L.P.; Oxycodone; Pharmaceutical industry; Pharmaceutical industry; Rich people;

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Pharma : greed, lies, and the poisoning of America / by Posner, Gerald L.,author.(CARDINAL)184413;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-573) and index.Patient zero -- The poison squad -- Enter the Feds -- The wonder drug -- "Could you patent the sun?" -- An unlikely trio -- A one-atom difference -- A "Jewish kid from Brooklyn" -- Medicine Avenue -- The hard sell blitz -- A haven for communists -- The puppet master -- Fake doctors -- A "Sackler empire" -- "Be happy" pills -- "The therapeutic jungle" -- "Paint the worst possible picture" -- Thalidomide to the rescue -- The $100 million drug -- Legal but somehow "shifty" -- Targeting women -- Death with dignity -- "Go-go Goddard" -- "Here, eat this root" -- "They clean their own cages" -- "Splashdown!" -- "Tell him his lawyer is calling" -- A new definition of Blockbuster -- "Kiss the ring" -- The temple of Dendur -- "Valumania" -- Swine flu -- "Black River" -- "Everything can be abused" -- The age of biotech -- A "gay cancer" -- "None of the public's damned business" -- A pain management revolution -- Enter generics -- Selling hearts and minds -- "No one likes airing dirty laundry in public" -- "The sales department on steroids" -- "$$$$$$$$$$$$$ it's Bonus time in the neighborhood" -- Talking stomachs and dead presidents -- "We have to hammer on the abusers" -- "Giving Purdue a free pass" -- "You messed with the wrong mother" -- Profits and corpses -- Gaming the system -- Billion-dollar orphans -- The coming pandemic -- "Essentially a crime family."Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national reckoning with a monolithic industry.

Subjects: Purdue Pharma L.P.; Pharmaceutical industry; Pharmaceutical industry; Pharmaceutical industry; Prescription pricing; Drugs; Medication.;

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