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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a 2021 book by Patrick Radden Keefe

The book examines the history of the Sackler family, including the founding of Purdue Pharma, their role in the marketing of pharmaceuticals, and the family's central role in the opioid epidemic

The book followed Keefe's 2017 article on the Sackler family in The New Yorker, titled The Family That Built an Empire of Pain.

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