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Opinion The Jewish Museum profiled the 19th-century version of the Sacklers — and glossed over the devastation they caused
The wealthy Jewish Sassoon family derived the majority of their wealth from the opium trade
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Fast Forward Tel Aviv University med school to remove opioid crisis-linked Sackler name with family’s consent
TAU medical school is dropping the Sackler name after years of pressure over the family firm's connection to the opioid crisis, joining Oxford University and the Guggenheim and Metropolitan museums in New York
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Fast Forward The Sacklers, Jewish family behind OxyContin, will pay $6 billion in deal that shields them from lawsuits
Many institutions dropped the Sackler name as lawsuits over the opioid epidemic piled up, but Tel Aviv University has resisted pressure to do so
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Film & TV How one Jewish woman’s crusade became the year’s most talked-about documentary
In 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,' artist Nan Goldin takes on the Sackler family
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Opinion Nice Jewish kids struggle with addiction, too. It’s past time for a Jewish solution
Addiction and the stigma that goes with it has been a silent but deadly presence in our communities
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News 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021. How should Jewish communities respond?
Overdose deaths rose 15 percent between 2020 and 2021, according to recently released federal data.
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Fast Forward The Sacklers just lost their protection from opioid lawsuits
A federal judge on Thursday overturned Purdue Pharma’s $4.5 billion opioid settlement, which had shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from future lawsuits related to the epidemic. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in New York wrote in a 142-page opinion that the settlement that granted immunity to the Sacklers was “inconsistent”…
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