![]() “I think in some ways it’s a story about hubris,” he said. Keefe said it was “a portrait of three generations of one family behaving very badly, but also on a deeper level a story about systems and about impunity.” “Empire of Pain” traces the rise of the family’s fortunes under three doctor brothers and their children, and its downfall in a web of lawsuits and bankruptcy proceedings. A reckoning has come with the revelation that much of that fortune was based on Ox圜ontin, a powerful prescription painkiller that the company developed in the 1990s and marketed aggressively to doctors. Keefe’s book chronicles the billionaire Sackler clan, owner of Purdue Pharma, whose members used their fortune to fund museums and art galleries around the world. Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty” was awarded the 50,000 pound ($67,000) Baillie Gifford Prize during a ceremony at London’s Science Museum. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() LONDON (AP) - A book about a wealthy American family whose actions helped unleash the United States’ opioid epidemic - described by its author as a “story of hubris” - won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize Tuesday. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]()
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