Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

I loved Keefe's book Say Nothing so when this came out I was intrigued but then not sure I would be interested. I was wrong. This was fascinating and enraging! It's one of those books where you find yourself running to the next room to tell someone something you just learned in the book - They wanted to sell Oxy to CHILDREN! They didn't do any studies to see if it's addictive and said they did! They knew that it was TWO TIMES as powerful as morphine!

I really appreciated the amount of research put into the book and how clear he was about his process and sources. I loved that he had an independent fact-checker for the book. (Did you know most nonfiction isn't fact-checked? https://www.npr.org/2019/06/08/730898366/checking-facts-in-nonfiction)

Finally, it seems harsh to call the entire Sackler family evil but I can't think of a different word for it.