Raymond Sackler

Raymond Sackler

Raymond Sackler (February 16, 1920 – July 17, 2017) was an American physician and businessman. Raymond Sackler acquired Purdue Pharma together with his brothers Arthur M. Sackler and Mortimer Sackler. Purdue Pharma is the developer of OxyContin, the drug at the center of the opioid epidemic in the United States.Sackler, along with his brother Arthur, have been linked with the rise of direct pharmaceutical marketing and eventually to the rise of addiction to OxyContin in the United States. There are concerns that the Sackler family's philanthropy is used as "reputation laundering" from profits acquired from the misselling of opiates.

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