The Sackler family is a wealthy American family that has gained prominence primarily through their association with Purdue Pharma, a pharmaceutical company. Some of the family members were involved in the founding and management of Purdue Pharma, which is widely known for developing and marketing OxyContin, a prescription painkiller. OxyContin, a prescription painkiller developed by Purdue Pharma, played a significant role in the opioid crisis in the United States.

 

"We all choose our fight and this is mine,” said the art photographer Nan Goldin on Saturday as she led a protest in the Sackler courtyard entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

About 30 protesters arrived at the recently redesigned £2m entrance in Kensington, London, and placed bottles of pills and “Oxy dollar” bills stained red on the handmade porcelain tile flooring. Demonstrators then staged a “die-in”, lying down for five minutes to represent the 400,000 worldwide deaths they blame on drug dependency, and the five people a day they claim die in this country due to prescription drug addiction. To a steady drum beat, the campaigners called out the slogans “Sackler money, blood money” and “Abandon the Sackler name”. Guardian Article