![]() ![]() Did you know when you began that it was going to be such a family epic? The family story is in some ways the most interesting aspect of the book. And once you start down that avenue of inquiry, it doesn’t take very long to get to Purdue Pharma. In trying to figure out why that was, I realized that there was this huge existing market of people who had developed addictions to opioids through prescription pills. ![]() They had started sending more heroin to the US. One thing I had noticed is that they’re quite sophisticated businesses, these cartels. I also did a big story for The New Yorker about the legalization of marijuana in Washington State, looking at what it means for a drug to be licit versus illicit. ![]() I had done a lot of reporting about the illegal drug business and I’d written two big pieces about the Sinaloa drug cartel. In some ways it grows logically from work I’ve done in the past. Radden Keefe’s previous book, Say Nothing, won a National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States for its investigative account of an unsolved killing linked to the civil conflict in Northern Ireland. ![]() His new book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty tells the story of a family that grew wealthy in part thanks to a drug, Ox圜ontin, that has been described as a contributing factor in the opioid crisis. Patrick Radden Keefe is a reporter at The New Yorker magazine. ![]()
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