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An heir to a multi-billion dollar opioid fortune recently purchased a $22.5 million Bel-Air mansion, according to a recent report, but he and his family have never publicly donated to any addiction rehabilitation centers.

David Sackler is part of the family that owns Purdue Pharma, the company that manufactures OxyContin and that’s widely blamed for initiating the opioid epidemic. Purdue executives admitted to lying to doctors about OxyContin’s addictiveness and effectively reversed physicians’ fears of prescribing opioids.

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