The Louvre museum in Paris has removed the name of the Sackler family from one of its wings, amid a sanitory scandal that has seen the billionaire donors accused of pushing a highly-addictive opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths, reported local media on Wednesday. The Louvre museum in Paris has removed the name of the Sackler family from one of its wings, amid a sanitory scandal that has seen the billionaire donors accused of pushing a highly-addictive opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths, reported local media on Wednesday. The wing had been given the name due to a US$3.6 million donation made by the Sackler family in 1996. The Louvre was the latest in a string of museums to face criticism over links to the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma, whose painkiller OxyContin is now subject to more than 1,000 lawsuits over its role in the U.S. opioid crisis.
— source telesurenglish.net | 17 Jul 2019