Purdue founders Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler were the sons of Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn who attended medical school in Scotland because American schools wouldn’t admit Jews at the time.

The individuals behind Purdue Pharma's involvement in the U.S. opioid crisis reached a $7-billion settlement in January 2025.

Mortimer and Raymond Sackler are the late patriarchs of a family under fire now for its central role in the opioid addiction crisis, which has led to hundreds of thousands of American deaths.

Family and company to make payment to group of US states and other parties to settle long-running litigation over OxyContin’s ...

Representatives of the families of the late Mortimer Sackler and Raymond Sackler have long denied wrongdoing and said they would support “a resolution that provides substantial resources to help ...

Connolly, attorney for the Raymond Sackler family. “The Sackler family has vigorously denied the false allegations in the state’s lawsuit, and believes the proposed $10-$12 billion settlement ...

In May, the Raymond Sackler family launched a website to address what it said were "many false allegations" blaming the family, Purdue Pharma and one of its products, OxyContin, for "creating" the ...

Purdue had already settled with the state for $270m earlier this year. Brothers Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler were all doctors from Brooklyn, New York, who in the early 1950s bought a ...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a controversial settlement that drug maker Purdue Pharma had reached with victims of the opioid epidemic.