• Patrick Radden Keefe Shares His Journey Writing the Empire of Pain

  • Aug 12 2021
  • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
  • Podcast

Patrick Radden Keefe Shares His Journey Writing the Empire of Pain

  • Summary

  • The Empire of Pain has been described as a generational best selling book. Award winning author and journalist, Patrick Radden Keefe, shares his journey in researching, documenting, writing and publishing one of the most fansinating books of our time. Patrick reveals the unimaginable level of deceit, corruption, and manipulation that the Sackler family practiced in building an Opioid dynasty in the pharmaceutical world, which lead to the biggest drug epidemics ever. He pulls back the covers on how during the process of writing  the book he was threatened, intimated and stonewalled by Sackler loyalists who wanted to see there multi-generational family dynasty remain intact and keep their name a top of the societies most prestigious families. Patrick reveals how his "inner honey badger" got kicked into full gear while remaining relentless in his pursuit to get this story told. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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