Join us for a discussion of "Empire of Pain" by Patrick Radden Keefe! Visit the library for available copies. All are welcome. Synopsis: The Sackler name, due to its philantropy, adorns the walls of many great institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. One of the richest families in the world and known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences, the source of the family's fortune was often vague. That was until, it was exposed they were responsible for the making and marketing of Ody-Contin, the blockbuster pharmaceutical drug that became the catalyst for the debilitating, opioid crisis.