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Opioids

  1. just asking questions
    Will the Infamous Sacklers Finally Face a Reckoning?Empire of Pain author Patrick Radden Keefe discusses a Supreme Court ruling that could change the reviled family’s fortunes.
    By Benjamin Hart
  2. scandals
    Worse Than TheranosAs the Elizabeth Holmes trial concluded, another medical tech scandal was also finishing, and the difference says a lot about what we really value.
    By Ankush Khardori
  3. opioid crisis
    The Met Will Remove the Sackler Name From Its GalleriesThe move follows years of pressure from activists, who said the museum was legitimizing the family despite its role in the opioid crisis.
    By Sarah Jones
  4. justice
    ‘It’s a Real Lesson in the Corruption of This Country’Anti-Sackler activist Nan Goldin on the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement.
    By Sarah Jones
  5. opioids
    Big Pharma Will Pay Biggest Settlement Since Big TobaccoFour companies will settle claims for $26 billion, two weeks after a similar settlement with Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family.
    By Matt Stieb
  6. opioids
    The Sacklers Get Away With It for the Price of $4.5 BillionThe family behind Purdue settled with 15 states to shut down the company that produced OxyContin and helped instigate the opioid crisis.
    By Matt Stieb
  7. business
    Philanthropic MonstersA new book shows how the Sackler family behind the opioid epidemic tried to buy immortality. They almost succeeded.
    By Sarah Jones
  8. goings
    Scandal-Plagued McKinsey Ousts LeaderIt is telling that partners at the elite and secretive consulting firm have chosen not to give Kevin Sneader a second term at the helm.
    By Andrew Rice
  9. opioids
    U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths Hit Record High in 2019And initial data suggests that there were 42 percent more overdoses in May 2020 than there were the previous May.
    By Eric Levitz
  10. opioid epidemic
    Bloomberg’s Alleged Aid for the Sackler Family Should Come As No SurpriseA new report reveals that the billionaire gave PR advice to the now infamous family behind the opioid epidemic.
    By Sarah Jones
  11. public health
    Americans Are Dying Younger, Having Fewer Babies, Studies FindThe death rate among Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 is surging, while birth rates have hit a three-decade low.
    By Eric Levitz
  12. Rate of Babies Born to Opioid Addicted Mothers QuadruplesAnother study shows that workers in industries with high injury risk die of opioid overdoses more often than workers in other professions.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  13. Trump Opioids Plan to Include Good Ideas — Also, Executing Drug DealersThe president’s long-awaited plan (reportedly) includes evidence-based reforms — and the death penalty for drug dealers.
    By Eric Levitz
  14. war on drugs
    Trump’s Plan to Solve the Opioid Crisis Might Involve Executing Drug DealersHe praises brutal policies in Singapore and the Philippines, and would reportedly love to replicate them — but he’ll settle for harsher sentences.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  15. the opioid epidemic
    Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It.The scale and darkness of this epidemic is a sign of a civilization in a more acute crisis than we knew.
    By Andrew Sullivan
  16. Did Americans Turn to Opioids Out of Despair — or Just Because They Were There?A new study casts doubt on the idea that the epidemic is driven by economic hardship.
    By Eric Levitz
  17. Trump Calls for Really Great Ad Campaign Teaching Kids Not to Use DrugsMr. President, I’ve got some great ideas. Imagine someone holding an egg …
    By Ed Kilgore