The Family that Built an Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe According to training materials, Purdue instructed sales representatives to assure doctor repeatedly and without evidence—that “fewer than one per cent” of patients who took Oxycontin became addicted. (In 1999, a Purdue-funded study of patients who used Oxycontin for headaches found that the addiction rate was thirteen per cent.) ” This story is wild. I’ve never even heard the name Sackler, but they’re the family behind so much of what’s going on right now with the opioid epidemic. This history of how they created this massive opiate market by manipulating doctors, patients, hospitals, and public perception is fascinating and terrifying, and makes me worried about what else could be slipping through the medical establishment More Information Download and install Now