Is Richard Sackler Jewish?
Richard Stephen Sackler is an American billionaire businessman and physician who was the chairman and president of Purdue Pharma, a former company best known as the developer of OxyContin, whose connection to the opioid epidemic in the United States was the subject of multiple lawsuits and fines, and that filed for bankruptcy in 2019. Is…
Richard Stephen Sackler is an American billionaire businessman and physician who was the chairman and president of Purdue Pharma, a former company best known as the developer of OxyContin, whose connection to the opioid epidemic in the United States was the subject of multiple lawsuits and fines, and that filed for bankruptcy in 2019.
Is Richard Sackler Jewish?
Richard Sackler was born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrant parents, Sackler, with the knowledge of Mortimer Sackler and Jonathan Sackler, made Purdue Pharma measure its “performance” in proportion to not only the number but also the strength of the doses it sold, despite allegedly knowing that sustained high doses of OxyContin risked serious side effects, including addiction.
“And that’s how the fucking game is played. Half a million people died…and guys like Richard Sackler make a phone call in the middle of the night and absolutely nothing changes.”#Painkiller #Netflix pic.twitter.com/Leyv08iqjF
— divine (@DevinDonuts) August 20, 2023
Sackler has had an active medical license as a physician/surgeon in Connecticut since 1974. Sackler joined Purdue Pharma in 1971, as assistant to his father, the company’s president.
He became head of research and development and head of marketing.
