Amid opioid allegations, plan for major Sackler family gift to London National Portrait Gallery is dropped
London's National Portrait Gallery has dropped a major grant from the Sacklers, the family that owns the maker of prescription painkiller OxyContin, amid allegations against them.
London’s National Portrait Gallery has agreed to turn down a $1.3 million donation from the Sackler family, the prominent family that owns and controls Purdue Pharma and has been accused of helping to fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic by illegally marketing the
