Met Museum Will No Longer Take Money From OxyContin’s Sackler Family

The decision follows scores of lawsuits filed against the billionaire family and its opioid company, Purdue Pharma.

Litigation from U.S. states, counties and cities accuse members of the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma of exacerbating and profiting from the opioid epidemic through deceptive marketing of the prescription painkiller. New York’s attorney general, in a lawsuit filed in March, accused the Sackler family of being the “masterminds” of a scheme that led to the national opioid epidemic, NPR reported.

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