Yale, Columbia and others accepted donations from the Family behind Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin – but the universities won’t say whether they’ll return the funds
A controversy is enveloping one of America’s wealthiest families. It involves the fraught relationship between pharmaceutical companies at the heart of the Opioid Crisis and the nonprofits they fund.
In this case, the company is Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family. Their wealth exceeds $13bn, and over the years, the family have been generous patrons of medical research at the nation’s leading universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Tufts and Yale.
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