Mortimer Sackler

[7] Due to the outbreak of World War II, Sackler was prevented from finishing his medical education at this school.

[7][5][8] During the Korean War, Sackler was an army psychiatrist in Denver, Colorado, before joining his brothers, Arthur and Raymond, both newly graduated medical doctors, at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital in New York City.

According to The Independent, during the 1950s the brothers "undertook pioneering research into how alterations in bodily function can affect mental illness.

[4] According to The New Yorker, as of 2017[update], OxyContin, a blockbuster drug, "reportedly generated some $35 billion dollars in revenue for Purdue".

[20] In 1995, Sackler was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his services to education.

1949),[11] from Staffordshire, England who was formerly a teacher at the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion convent in London's Notting Hill Gate.

[11] Sackler lived in London from 1974, when he renounced his American citizenship;[4][6] he also spent time at his other properties including his estate on the Berkshire Downs, Rooksnest, Lambourn Woodlands, Berkshire with nineteen acres of ornate gardens by designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd[25][Notes 1] and in their residences in the Swiss Alps, and the French Riviera.

[11] Sackler died at age 93 on March 24, 2010, in Gstaad, Switzerland, survived by his wife and their son and two daughters, as well as four children from his previous two marriages.

This was verified again with legally obtained documents tied to a new lawsuit, which was filed in June by the Massachusetts attorney general, Maura Healey.

The Times reported that the lawsuit claims Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family "knew that putting patients on high dosages of OxyContin for long periods increased the risks of serious side effects, including addiction.

Nonetheless, they promoted higher dosages because stronger pain pills brought the company and the Sacklers the most profit".