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Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) calls for members of the Sackler family to testify before Congress for their role in starting the opioid epidemic with their ruthless marketing campaign of painkillers that generated their company, Purdue Pharmaceuticals, billions of dollars.
To learn more about the Sackler family’s role in the opioid crisis read The New Yorker’s “The Family That Built An Empire Of Pain”
What Commonalities Do The Cali Drug Cartels, Sinaloa, El Chapo Guzman, And Pablo Escobar Share With The Sackler Family?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York does not have a Pablo Escobar Wing and the Guggenheim does not have an El Chapo Guzman gallery. There isn’t a Sinaloa Drug Cartel Developmental Psychobiology Center. Oxford wouldn’t be Oxford any longer if it renamed its library to honor the Cali drug cartel.
All of our most highly respected institutions adhere to ethical standards that wouldn’t allow them to accept money from rich drug dealers – no matter how worthwhile the project or how tempting the prospect might be. They refuse to turn into philanthropic money launders, to cleanse dirty reputations through selling the rights to their prestigious name.
However, the institutional code does have one very notable exception to it: the Sackler family. This family made an absolute fortune from the painkiller OxyContin, which is blamed for giving the deadly opioid crisis its start. The Sacklers are world-famous donors -despite the fact that they are also first-class drug pushers, who are responsible for nearly as many deaths as the Mexican drug cartels last year.
You can find the Sackler name plastered all over and disgracing dozens of the greatest performing art centers, universities, and museums in the world. To date, none of these institutions have turned their donations down, and also none of them have returned any of the money that has been donated already. We strongly agree with prohibiting blood diamond sales, but yet we allow the Sacklers to use blood money cleverly to hide their drug shame with philanthropic fame.
This is allowed despite the fact that both the drug cartels and Sacklers make their money from highly addictive drugs that has destroyed numerous lives. They both push drugs on as many individuals as they possibly can, and charge as high of price as these captive markets will stand. Both are reckless, callous, and greedy. Both corrupt civil servants as well as politicians – the Sacklers do with gold, while the cartels offer the choice of either lead or gold. They both break and manipulate the law – however the Sacklers are more skillful at it and receive barely any punishment at all.
“Philanthropy” from the Sacklers is a complete misnomer. “Love of man” is the what the root word means in Greek. The showy Sackler donations are motivated more by narcissistic ambition and less from loving mankind. They appear to have a compelling need for attaching the name of their family to the greatest achievements of humankind. Their apparent generous giving is motivated by intensely selfish reasons.
The Sacklers could demonstrate true philanthropy belatedly and accomplish partial redemption, only through offering reparations to those who have been victimized already by the opioid epidemic and then doing everything they can to prevent it from spreading any further. That would leave a legacy that was much more meaningful and substantial than having their name plastered all over buildings across the world.
A majority of the gigantic Sackler fortune (14 Billion) should be spent on providing free treatment to individuals they have addicted to their Oxycontin. And a reverse marketing campaign should be mounted by the Sacklers to attempt to undo the earlier brainwashing of patients and doctors on Oxycontin – to warn them about the risk that opioid pills carry, rather than falsely marketing their seductive and so-called safe benefits. Instead of more Sackler buildings, more help needs to be directly to the people they have hurt so badly.
There are many institutions with the Sackler name associated with them that are stuck in a big quandary. Should they keep honoring a donor whose money was made in such a dishonorable way? Does their honor require them to give the money back and erase the Sackler name off of their books and buildings?
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