Arthur m sackler biography of michael jackson
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Other Truths
Like Professor Stuart Schreiber, I found out by accident that my dad was not actually my biological father (“Truth: A Love Story,” July-August, page 53). Unlike Schreiber, however, I discovered this at age 16, and was able to determine within 24 hours the identity of my bio-dad, when I walked into my girlfriend’s home room and told her “I found out the most amazing thing last night.” She replied, “I know what you’re going to tell me. Everyone in Logan [our small town in southeastern Ohio] has known about it for years.” I learned that bio-dad was a doctor who had graduated from Ohio State and who had met my mother when she was a nursing student.
The discovery explained a lot of mysteries, such as why both my younger brothers were six inches taller than me, why I received much more physical and especially mental abuse from my dad, and why he would go into a rage whenever my mother even talked with a doctor.
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Our School History
The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) was established by the trustees of Tufts University on July 1, 1980 through the gifts of the late Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler and Dr. Raymond R. Sackler. As a result of their generosity, six fledgling graduate programs at Tufts University School of Medicine were given a new home. This new school, the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, aligned with the vision of then president of Tufts University, Jean Mayer, who saw integration across all medical fields as crucial for health advancement. In December 2019, University President Anthony P. Monaco and Chair of the Board of Trustees Peter Dolan announced the decision to remove the Sackler name from all programs and facilities on the Tufts Boston health sciences campus–including the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences–due to “the human toll of the opioid epidemic in which members of the Sackler Family and their company Purdue Pharm
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Purdue Pharma
American pharmaceutical company (1892–2019 bankruptcy)
Not to be confused with Purdue Pharmacy.
Purdue Pharma L.P., formerly the Purdue Frederick Company (1892–2019), was an American privately held pharmaceutical company founded by John Purdue Gray. It was sold to Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler in 1952, and then owned principally by the Sackler family and their descendants.[1][2]
The company manufactured pain medicines such as hydromorphone, fentanyl, codeine, hydrocodone and oxycodone, also known by its brand name, OxyContin. The Sacklers developed aggressive marketing tactics persuading doctors to prescribe OxyContin in particular. Doctors were enticed with free trips to pain-management seminars (which were effectively all-expenses-paid vacations) and paid speaking engagements. Sales of their drugs soared, as did the number of people dying from overdoses.[3] From 1999 to 2020, nearly 841,000 people died from drug overdos