In a 2019 suit, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey accused members of the Sackler family of deceiving patients and doctors about the addiction risk associated with Ox圜ontin. Purdue Pharma is the maker of Ox圜ontin, and many have said the company helped fuel the opioid painkiller crisis. He was erased."Ī spokesperson for the family of Mortimer Sackler declined to comment on Robert Sackler's death, but told Insider: "Our focus is on concluding a resolution that will provide help to people and communities in need, rather than on this book." They did not speak of him, for the most part. "But when a member of the family died young, they did not commemorate him in any public fashion. "It was a strange paradox: the Sacklers had put their name everywhere," Keefe wrote. Read more: 5 takeaways from Walter Isaacson's best-selling book on Jennifer Doudna, the scientist who won a Nobel for her gene-editing tech that's reshaping biotech's future The book claims employees at Purdue Pharma speculated about the cause of death but "it was difficult to verify because the incident received no press coverage at all, and the Sacklers did not speak of it." Keefe wrote the family did not acknowledge Robert Sackler's suicide in a New York Times obituary they paid for, nor in a memorial scholarship fund they established at Tel Aviv University. Robert Sackler was 24 years old when he died.
Sources close to the Sackler family told Keefe the young Sackler had been addicted to the street drug PCP, which causes hallucinations. Robert "Bobby" Sackler spent time in a psychiatric facility due to perceived mental illness, Keefe reported.
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