One Family Reaped Billions From Opioids (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Some days America’s opioid crisis looks so big, so overwhelming, that it seems it just descended on us like a curse of nature, a plague of locusts. It didn’t. Opioids were very carefully and aggressively sold into the American medical system, and most prominently sold by one family. They’re now billionaires and philanthropists. The Sackler family. You can find their name all over fancy museums and campuses. But it’s opioid money. This hour, On Point: The family that made billions in America’s opioid flood. --Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/10/23/one-family-reaped-billions-from-opioids