This is how the Sackler family plunged the United States into the opioid crisis (and made a fortune)

The headquarters of the international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City occupy ten floors of a slender black office tower in a forest of skyscrapers in the heart of Manhattan. Founded in 1931 by a few aristocratic lawyers who had parted ways with a well-established Wall Street office, Debevoise quickly gained prestige and within decades became an international giant with 800 lawyers, a long list of prominent clients and an annual turnover of nearly one billion dollars. Manhattan offices no longer recall the oak and exclusive leather atmosphere of the early years; they’re furnished in the same salt-free style as most commercial buildings today: carpeted hallways, glass-walled meeting rooms, and standing desks. In the twentieth century, power was displayed; in the present century, you recognize power precisely by the effort that goes into hiding it.

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