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Mortimer Sackler
"Last Week Tonight" host recruits Michael Keaton, Bryan Cranston,Michael K. Williams and Richard Kind to take on the Sackler family.
The New York museums decision follows similar moves by museums in London amid the ongoing opioid crisis.
As OxyContin addiction spurred a national nightmare, a member of the family that has reaped billions of dollars from the painkiller boasted that sales exceeded his fondest dreams.
Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family, manufactures and markets OxyContin -- one of the prescription painkillers at the center of the opioid crisis.
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Demonstrators demanded that the Sackler family fund treatment for OxyContin addiction.