Weighing in at a conservative $14 billion, the Sackler family entered Forbes’ Top-20 List of America’s Richest Families. How did this family generate such a lofty sum? In short, Raymond and Mortimer Sackler manufactured, aggressively marketed, and sold the most notorious painkiller ever created, OxyContin.. Nearly four out of five new drug addicts say they started out abusing painkillers …

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