Mortimer and Raymond Sackler are the late patriarchs of a family under fire now for its central role in the opioid addiction crisis, which has led to hundreds of thousands of American deaths.

Several states have reached a $7 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma based on the Sackler family's role in creating the opioid crisis, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced today.

Among a series of small windows in Henry VII's chapel, Westminster Abbey, installed in 1995 to acknowledge donors to the Abbey's late twentieth-century restoration appeal, is one naming Dr Mortimer ...

The $7.4 billion settlement was agreed "in principle with members of the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma for their instrumental role in creating the opioid crisis," New York ...