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Richard Stephen Sackler (born March 10, 1945) [1] is an American businessman and physician who was the chairman and president of Purdue Pharma, a former company best known as the developer of OxyContin, whose initiation of the opioid epidemic in the United States became the subject of many lawsuits and fines, filing for bankruptcy in 2019.
Former Purdue Pharma executive Richard Sackler eventually distanced himself from the company. In 2003, Richard stepped down as president of the notorious pharmaceutical company.
Where is Richard Sackler now? Is the Sackler family still rich? Painkiller director Peter Berg talks about the true story of Purdue Pharma and the opioid crisis.
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Purdue Pharma from going forward with bankruptcy proceedings, which the Biden administration has called an “unprecedented” arrangement that would ultimately...
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a controversial settlement that would have sent billions of dollars to treatment programs and victims of the nation’s opioid epidemic but also shielded the...
Purdue Pharma, the maker of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, was dissolved on Wednesday in a wide-ranging bankruptcy settlement that will require the company’s owners, members of...
A federal judge has overturned a bankruptcy settlement worth more than $4 billion which granted immunity from opioid lawsuits to members of the Sackler family who own the company that makes...
CNN — During hours-long testimony in a Purdue Pharma federal bankruptcy proceeding on Wednesday, former company president Richard Sackler said he believes his family and the OxyContin...
In one corner is Richard Sackler, portrayed as a robotic, miserable figure, desperate for profit but also convinced that his opioids could be as beneficial as penicillin.
And, six Sacklers sat on the board of the company, including the chairman Richard Sackler, who closely directed the firm's aggressive and deceptive marketing strategy of OxyContin as not...