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richardarmitagefanpage · 5 months

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#richard armitage #geneva #geneva book #harlan coben #i will find you #josephine hart #damage #patrick radden keefe #empire of pain #maxwell smart #the boy in the woods #books #amazon #article #news

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apesoformythoughts · 8 months

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We have often sneered at the superstition and cowardice of the mediaeval barons who thought that giving lands to the Church would wipe out the memory of their raids or robberies; but modern capitalists seem to have exactly the same notion; with this not unimportant addition, that in the case of the capitalists the memory of the robberies is really wiped out.

— G.K. Chesterton

#g.k. chesterton #epigraphs #empire of pain

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biblically-accurate-soup · 1 month

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#and others but i don’t have enough space to list them all #empire of pain #genuinely this shits crazy #uriel posting

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books-and-cookies · 2 years

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5 SECOND REVIEW

* um... wow 🤯

* i know i haven't read a lot of nonfiction, but this was an OUTSTANDING piece of investigative journalism

* it essentially chronicles the secret history of the family behind the gargantuan success of the opioid drug Oxycontin and how it led to the unprecedented opioid abuse crisis that the U.S. still struggles with

* it's a story of ambition, greed, power, corruption and it's just... absolutely fucking amazing

* bonus - I recommend watching the 2 part HBO documentary The Crime of the Century, which initially got me interested in this book

* i genuinely urge you guys to pick this up, it's so well written, incredibly well researched and hugely eye-opening

* 5/5 ⭐️

#books #booklr #book review #nonfiction #empire of pain #patrick radden keefe #mary says stuff about

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cesaray · 2 years

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#currently reading #Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty #empire of pain #patrick radden keefe

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cavalierappreciator · 2 years

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"...it now emerged that doctors were prescribing Roche’s tranquilizers to women much more often than to men, and Arthur [Sackler] and his colleagues seized on this phenomenon and started to aggressively market Librium and Valium to women. In describing an ideal patient, a typical ad for Valium read, “35, single and psychoneurotic.” An early ad for Librium showed a young woman with an armful of books and suggested that even the routine stress of heading off to college might be best addressed with Librium. But the truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that as the historian Andrea Tone noted in her book The Age of Anxiety, what Roche’s tranquilizers really seemed to offer was a quick fix for the problem of “being female.”"

—Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe

#empire of pain #quote #currently reading #this book is gonna make me lose my mind #thinking abt how often mras/alt right/xtian fascists also employ those tropes as if they're innate and not sold to them #by the very establishment they believe they hate #reactionaries gonna reactionary i guess

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26lettersandmanyjourneys · 2 years

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12.05.2022

Another book that comes highly recommended (and book 101 for me this year)

#26lettersandmanyjourneys #books #reading update #pic #empire of pain #patrick radden keefe

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lem0nademouth · 4 months

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hey uh opioids aren’t the problem. a lot of other things - corporate greed, lack of access to preventative healthcare, poverty, policing, the criminalization of prescription medication & cannabis, ableism, racism, lack of access to abortions and contraceptives - all of those and more are the problem. opioids are life saving medications. “alternative pain management” rarely works. but it’s so much easier to blame a drug than it is to accept the blame yourself.

#i have Big Thoughts abt the opioid crisis #bc at its core its actually a Healthcare Access Crisis #but i digress #trust me i am appalachian i know the opioid crisis far more intimately than i care to #but the pills are not the problem #addiction #opioid crisis #purdue pharma #sackler family #empire of pain #READ EMPIRE OF PAIN OH MY GOD

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offtheleashtravel · 4 months

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The Best Books I Read in 2023

From Nazi occupied France to Puerto Rican occupied Brooklyn. #books #bookreviews

The Postcard, Anne Berest It’s 2003 when an anonymous postcard arrives in the mailbox of a French family. On it are simply four first names. They are the names of a mother, father and two of their children. All died at Auschwitz in 1942. The postcard is the launching point for two stories. The first is the story of the Rabinovitch family. Refugees from Russia, they make stops in Latvia, Poland…

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#Book reviews #books #Empire of Pain #Forget the Alamo #Olga Dies Dreaming #Paradise Falls #The Year That Broke America

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offtheleashart · 4 months

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The Best Books I Read in 2023

From Nazi occupied France to Puerto Rican occupied Brooklyn. #books #bookreviews

The Postcard, Anne Berest It’s 2003 when an anonymous postcard arrives in the mailbox of a French family. On it are simply four first names. They are the names of a mother, father and two of their children. All died at Auschwitz in 1942. The postcard is the launching point for two stories. The first is the story of the Rabinovitch family. Refugees from Russia, they make stops in Latvia, Poland…

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#Book reviews #books #Empire of Pain #Forget the Alamo #Olga Dies Dreaming #Paradise Falls #The Year That Broke America

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thatwritererinoriordan · 5 months

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Currently reading.

#empire of pain #nonfiction #opioid crisis #patrick radden keefe

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apesoformythoughts · 9 months

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The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller, OxyContin, that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.

Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d'Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush dissent. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting—a grand, devastating portrait of the excesses of America's second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite, and an investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world's great fortunes.

#book covers #patrick radden keefe #empire of pain #did the Chesterton epigraph convince me? perhaps #OxyContin

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matteroffacts-blog · 1 year

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The best books I read in 2022

A pet hate of mine is the extent to which our culture conflates being a ‘book lover’ with being really into novels. This view tends to erase the literary merit of non-fiction. I would submit that the ten books on this list, all of them non-fiction, illustrate that nearly everything one could want from a novel can be found in non-fiction. There are compelling narratives that transport us through…

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books-and-cookies · 2 years

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Everyone is like gun lobbying this, gun lobbying that, which... fair. But look at the opioid painkillers producers. $700 million spent on lobbying in less than 10 years. Eight times the amount of gun lobbying. Unreal.

#books #nonfiction #booklr #empire of pain #i cannot recommend it enough

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ruubesz-draws · 2 months

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