The Sackler Family – A Secretive Billion Dollar Opioid Empire

ColdFusion

Why leaders watch it

Documents how a family and company put profit over patient safety, a cautionary case on ethics and governance.

A ColdFusion documentary on the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, tracing their role in the opioid crisis that has killed over 200,000 people.

Takeaways

• Incentives drove deceptive marketing
• Leaders ignored warnings of harm
• Ethical failure comes from sustained choices

Topics: Ethics & character, Failure, safety & learning orgs

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