Billionaire Sackler family, blamed for opioid epidemic, secretly owned 2nd drug company

Posted on 10/09/2018

The Sacklers are the owners of Purdue Pharma, which created the addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin. But the family also own Rhodes Pharma, according to a Financial Times report yesterday. Together, they were responsible for 14.4 million opioid prescriptions in the US.