Parents whose children fatally overdosed on opioids are demanding Harvard University remove the name of a family whose company makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin from a building that housed one of its art museums.
Cheryl Juaire, center, of Marlborough, Mass., center, leads protesters near the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University, Friday, April 12, 2019, in Cambridge, Mass. Juaire, whose son Corey Merrill died of an opioid overdose in 2011, led the demonstration by parents who have lost a child to opioid overdose, campaigning for the removal of the Sackler family name from the building at Harvard.
"Harvard, we want the Sackler name to come down," she said. "This is a wonderful institution. And to be associated with the Sackler family is wrong, on every level possible. No more blood money." "Dr. Sackler died in 1987, before OxyContin was developed and marketed. Given these circumstances and legal and contractual considerations, Harvard does not have plans to remove Dr. Sackler's name from the museum. The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation does not fund the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard," the museum said in a statement Friday.
A lawsuit filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey accuses Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family of hiding the risks of opioids from doctors and patients. The Sackler family owns the drug company.
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