Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

by Patrick Radden Keefe

If you lose a fortune, you can always earn another, he pointed out. But if you lose your good name, you can never get it back.

The opioid crisis is, among other things, a parable about the awesome capability of private industry to subvert public institutions.

No amount of money would be enough. But at the same time, she continued, there was no sum the Sacklers could spend to erase the history of what they had done.