Lisa
I would submit, sir, that you & your family are addicted to money.

Patrick Radden Keefe

I read this book 2 years ago & it’s incredible. If you decide to read it, take your time with it. There’s a lot of detail & it’s easy to get lost a bit (at first) within the Sackler family members. More recently, as in this week, I finished watching Hulu’s Dopesick. 5 stars for Micheal Keaton. Just started Netflix’s Painkiller. It’s interesting to see how these shows differ in their approach. If you have an interest in this subject matter, I cannot recommend more highly, this book & these shows. #books #nonfiction #opioids #hulu #netflix @[email protected]
Sep 15, 2023 at 11:55amWeb
Show threadJenniferSep 15, 2023
@likewise @bookstodon that book is so good, but it made me angry. That family caused so much harm to our entire society by turning medicine into a marketing commodity, then almost seeming to want everyone to get hooked on their drugs. Maybe ten years ago I visited the Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian in Washington DC and the art was gorgeous. While I was reading this book I realized that gallery was made possible by that family gaming the pharmaceutical industry. Yuck.
Show threadLisaSep 15, 2023
@Jennifer I agree wholeheartedly with your words.
Show threadSusanne Mullis-PumSep 15, 2023

@likewise @bookstodon
Maybe you‘d like to watch this documentary https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_the_beauty_and_the_bloodshed directed by Laura Poitras.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin and her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis, told through her slideshows, intimate interviews and ground-breaking photography.

#overdosecrisis #oxycontin #Poitras #goldin

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

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