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872:"Brothers Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, who founded a company that became Purdue Pharma, donated to dozens of high-profile institutions, both individually and jointly, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, the Tate and the Victoria and Albert museums, as well as Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities. The Washington museum is one of several institutions targeted by protests led by photographer
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published a multi-page exposé on
Raymond Sackler, Purdue Pharma, and the Sackler family. The article links Raymond and Arthur Sackler's business acumen with the rise of direct pharmaceutical marketing and eventually to the rise of addiction to OxyContin in the United States. The article implies that
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Sackler family knew that putting patients on high dosages of OxyContin for long periods increased the risks of serious side effects, including addiction. Nonetheless, they promoted higher dosages because stronger pain pills brought the company and the Sacklers the most profit. On
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Netherlands, Sackler supported the Laboratory for Astrophysics named after him. He also gave Leiden University an endowment for the establishment of the Raymond and Beverly Chair of American History. Sackler was the moving force, one of the founders, and oversaw the implementation of the
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revealed that
Sackler had told company officials in 2008 to "measure our performance by Rx’s by strength, giving higher measures to higher strengths." This was verified by legally obtained documents tied to a new lawsuit filed in June 2018 by the Massachusetts attorney general,
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February 1, 2019, Healey released unredacted documents showing that the
Sacklers directed doctors to overprescribe the drug and listed doctors (under the code name "Region Zero") who overprescribed Oxycontin for the Sackler family's profit rather than patients' health.
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In 2010, the
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Mortimer transitioned into the development of numerous pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and research companies, Sackler being closely associated with the now global reach of
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Raymond and
Beverly Sackler Rooms and the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Wing, as part of "development of the new masterplan", and that it "made this decision together through collaborative discussions" with the Sackler Foundation.
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calling attention to the source of the
Sackler wealth. . . . Several museums have announced that they will no longer accept donations from the family, while the Louvre in Paris removed the Sackler name from its gallery wall."
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Sackler and his wife, Beverly, directly and through the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundations, initiated and sustained major research programs in the biomedical, biological, physical and engineering sciences through
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Purdue Pharma, which is 100% privately owned and operated by the families of Raymond and Mortimer Sackler, researched, developed, markets and distributes the opiate drug
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that provides a four-year medical education program for American students at the Sackler School of Medicine of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University.
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in the United States and Canada and Mundipharma, Ltd. in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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Sackler married Beverly Feldman in 1944. They had two sons,
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