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Drugs Book Club: Empire of Pain

  • Solid State Books 600 H Street Northeast Washington, DC, 20002 United States (map)

Join us for Drugs Book Club where we’ll discuss Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain. This book club meets quarterly. Please register your interest here.

The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.

Earlier Event: February 12
Books on Hands Book Club
Later Event: February 17
Romance Book Club: Pride and Protest