Purdue Pharma is 100% owned by a single family - the Sacklers.  Forbes magazine listed the 20 member family among the 2015 list of America’s Richest Families comes in at a stunning $14 billion.

Unlike most multinational, publically traded pharma companies that have a layer of corporate oversight acting to protect shareholders long-term interests and ensure compliance and corporate social responsibility, one family has controlling interest in Purdue and one family has the power to change the culture of a company that has had a significant impact on exaserbating the opioid crisis as well as promoting the over-prescribing of valium.

While the Sacklers have made major contributions to art and philanthropy, they can no longer avoid public and moral demands for accountability.