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Drugs, poverty and entertainment

November 23, 2019 by David Black Leave a Comment

Few reputations can have crashed as sensationally as that of the Sacklers, one-time cultural benefactors par excellence, now pariahs without peer, their name indelibly linked to America's opioid epidemic, their philanthropy unceremoniously dumped by the Louvre, the Tate, and the National Portrait Gallery.Drug abuse kills around 70,000 users a year in the USA, according to … [Read more...] about Drugs, poverty and entertainment

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