Mortimer sackler biography
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The controversial Sackler family is the focus of Netflix's opioid-crisis drama 'Painkiller.' Here's where the family is now.
- Netflix's "Painkiller" follows the controversial Sackler family as they develop the drug OxyContin.
- On the six-episode drama, none of the Sackler family members face legal repercussions directly.
- Here's what happened to the Sackler family in real life.
Netflix's fictionalized drama "Painkiller" focuses on the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma as it develops and aggressively markets the drug OxyContin.
But the show, which is based on Patrick Radden Keefe's New Yorker article and former New York Times reporter Barry Meier's book on the Sacklers and the opioid crisis, also explores the wide-ranging effects of OxyContin's ubiquity, including how numerous users later became addicted to the drug.
And although Purdue Pharma has been the focus of numerous lawsuits since OxyContin was first released in the mid's, the