In terms of the timeline, it’s very hard to reconcile what they have always said publicly and what I was able to substantiate with internal documents. “And there’s very high-level discussion by senior executives at the company, some of whom subsequently testified under oath that they didn’t know anything about this until early 2000.
People are abusing this drug,’” Keefe says. “One thing I was able to establish very definitively in the book is that, in fact, there is this paper trail, really starting in 1997, so just a year after the drug is released, of sales reps sending messages back saying, ‘Hey, we’ve got a problem here. One of the subjects covered in Keefe’s investigative work is what the company knew, and when, as the crisis began to unfold. Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book, “Empire of Pain,” is a history of the Sacklers, the family behind Purdue Pharma, the creator of the powerful painkiller Ox圜ontin, which became the root of the opioid crisis in the United States.
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen In his new book 'Empire Of Pain,' Patrick Radden Keefe tells the sweeping story of the rise and fall of an American dynasty, a family obsessed with emblazoning its name across museums and.
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