The individuals behind Purdue Pharma's involvement in the U.S. opioid crisis reached a $7-billion settlement in January 2025.

She, too, keeps a low profile. Few Sacklers – with the exception of Elizabeth Sackler, the daughter of Mortimer’s brother Arthur Sackler (who died before OxyContin was developed and whose descendants ...

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery combine to comprise the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. Opened in 1923, the Freer Gallery showcases American paintings from the ...

The ascent of the Sackler family is a remarkable rags to riches story that starts with the rise of three brothers from Brooklyn: Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond, the sons of Jewish grocers who ...

Lunar New Year begins on Wednesday, January 29, and festive events around DC are commemorating the Year of the Snake with ...

Harvard students demanded the removal of the name of Arthur M. Sackler from a Harvard museum, but the university saw an out: Arthur wasn’t involved in the making of OxyContin, so the name stays ...

Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. (2014); and the National Museum of Art in Osaka (2008). Another work, The Heart in Your Home, explores a theme that runs throughout much of Shiota’s work.

An Empire of Misery and a Legacy of Opioids. The Sackler family, once revered for its wealth and philanthropic endeavours, is ...

Explore the Sackler family's legacy, their role in Purdue Pharma, and the devastating opioid crisis they helped fuel.

A new $9 fee on almost everyone driving into the busiest parts of Manhattan represents a welcome, albeit belated and inadvertent, homage to British scholar Arthur Pigou, who argued a century ago ...

The latest settlement is meant to address a drug addiction crisis that has led to over 700,000 opioid overdose deaths in the US over the past two decades.