Mortimer Sackler dies at 93; arts patron was co-owner of Purdue Pharma
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 02:21
in Mathematics & Economics
Purdue Pharma developed the painkiller OxyContin, which had sales of $3 billion by 2001. Sackler used profits from the firm to fund arts and universities in the U.S. and Europe. Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, the psychiatrist who with his brothers bought a small pharmaceutical company and turned it into a major player in the industry by developing the powerful and controversial painkiller OxyContin,...