The book uncovers three generations of the Sackler family, tracking their massive fortune from the initial marketing success of Valium to the highly profitable and aggressive promotion of OxyContin. Author Patrick Radden Keefe chronicles how the family systematically co-opted doctors, influenced regulatory bodies, and downplayed the severe addictiveness of their blockbuster painkiller. This masterpiece illustrates how they accumulated billions while ruthlessly deploying legal tactics to evade responsibility for an international addiction epidemic