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Sep 16, 2026
Susie Singer-CarterGUEST
unfortunate.
Susie Singer-CarterGUEST
But look at the Sackler family.
Susie Singer-CarterGUEST
They are greed personified.
Max CoughlanHOST
They are.
Kate GlavanHOST
And you'll also hear like Maha, RFK Jr. people talk about.
Kate GlavanHOST
So the Sackler family bought Purdue in 1952.
Kate GlavanHOST
And when the Sacklers bought the company, it was just like the manufacturer of laxatives and earwax remover.
Kate GlavanHOST
It was not like fucking around with opioids.
Kate GlavanHOST
And if you're not familiar with OxyContin, it is a pain relieving and highly addictive synthetic opioid drug.
Nicole AngemiHOST
So it's like the medical community introduces these drugs to people, gets them addicted, and then doesn't help them get off it by, besides cutting them off, which doesn't just, not giving it to people does not cure their addiction.
Maria Q. KaneHOST
Well, and if people are not understanding of addicts as well, like I encourage you to look up any movie documentary made about the Sackler family and the OxyContin crisis.
Maria Q. KaneHOST
It like seriously stems from them.
Maria Q. KaneHOST
It's disgusting.
Jennifer WelchHOST
... just like the opioid companies knew about the addiction.
Jennifer WelchHOST
Um, the Sackler family knew about it, but they lied and bought somebody off at the FDA and all of that shit.
Jennifer WelchHOST
It, it's just all of this short-term, I'm gonna grab as much money as I can for me right now.
Angie SullivanHOST
Right.
Jennifer WelchHOST
The oil and gas companies know.
Josh WelchGUEST
Right.
Jennifer WelchHOST
The Sackler family knew that releasing, uh, Oxycontin onto the market was highly, highly, highly addictive, and they lied.
Jennifer WelchHOST
The tobacco industry knew that these cigarettes had carcinogens in them, and it, l- look at the deaths that are still occurring and, uh, the, the drain on the healthcare system still because of cigarettes.
Alex ClarkGUEST
Like, I am reading every book I can about the Purdue Pharma scandal now, and OxyContin and all these different things.
Mike RoweHOST
Sackler.
Alex ClarkGUEST
Yes.
Alex ClarkGUEST
And I just thought, this is the number one American true crime story.
Susie SingerGUEST
And I'm watching it.
Susie SingerGUEST
It's P- it's, um, you know, Peter Sarsgaard plays this, the main investigator, federal, federal prosecutor who goes after the Sackler family.
J SmilesHOST
Yes.
Susie SingerGUEST
And Michael Keaton plays the doctor who ends up getting, uh, addicted to Oxycontin 'cause it's extremely addicting.
J SmilesHOST
Right.
Susie SingerGUEST
And they are just horrible people, the Sackler family.
Susie SingerGUEST
Well, Rick Mountcastle is the guy that was played by, uh, Peter Sarsgaard.
Susie SingerGUEST
And at the la-
Sarah LanganGUEST
And so it wasn't it wasn't obvious it was worth waiting on.
Sarah LanganGUEST
And like what amazed me was studying the way that the Sacklers pushed through the FDA, the OxyContin.
Matthew J. DistefanoADVERTISER
And,
Sarah LanganGUEST
you know, I don't know if you guys remember, but like it went from the FDA being so good that we we were more trustworthy than France.
Phoebe KuhnGUEST
And then beyond that, it's, it's like you, I think, you know, you have like the major, major families like the...
Phoebe KuhnGUEST
You know, in terms of, of the, looking at the US, major families would be the Sacklers, the...
Phoebe KuhnGUEST
Like who are the, um-
Laura HerdeHOST
The Rothschilds
MackieHOST
So, like, they persuaded most of the world to take this, but, like, didn't need as many studies as the 10,000 plus cannabis.
SmeePANELIST
Did the Sackler family have to go through all this when in their pure opium though?
MackieHOST
Whoa, we are fucking playing Minesweeper today.
SmeePANELIST
Yeah.
SmeePANELIST
[laughs]
MackieHOST
Good point, actually.
SmeePANELIST
I didn't, I, I didn't assume the Sackler family are doing anything other than, you know-
MackieHOST
We're just asking if they went through any regulations
MarkHOST
They were gonna start in Germany.
MarkHOST
The Sackler family are the ones who bought basically heroin in a, in a tablet for-
Duncan McNairGUEST
Oh, for, for-
MarkHOST
For pain
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