Washington worried about Sackler drug tactics years before opioids
women’s depression, anxiety and desperation in the early days of the feminist revolution, promising the pill that the Rolling Stones in the 1960s called “Mother’s Little Helper” would make sure a housewife could “cook breakfast again,” or that the mom tied up by her costume-wearing kid “can cope.”At that time, the Sackler name was making news for the funding of art galleries, museums and schools.
“Our 1982 gift agreement with Arthur Sackler designating the museum building as the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in perpetuity is a legally binding contract,” said Linda St. Thomas, chief spokesperson for the Smithsonian Institution.They rewrote their policy in 2011 and now a donor only gets to name a space for 20 years, or until the next major renovation. And they did a soft rebrand of the Sackler site, combining it with the Freer Gallery to form the National Museum of Asian Art.
“Arthur died of a heart attack nearly 32 years ago at age 73, nearly a decade before OxyContin came to market,” she said in a“Neither Arthur nor his heirs had anything to do with the manufacture or marketing of OxyContin. Suggestions that his philanthropy is now somehow tainted are simply false.”Sacklers followed their patriarch’s Valium playbook to push the far-deadlier OxyContin.
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