beginning in 1996. In the years after, opioid prescriptions increased by millions while overdoses and deaths from the drugs started to climb, too. Despite warning signs, executives downplayed OxyContin's addictiveness and pushed doctors to prescribe more and more of it, reaping billions of dollars in profits each year.The Sackler family has for decades made substantial donations to the Met, as well as other cultural and academic institutions throughout the world.
The Met's Sackler Wing is home to one of the most prized treasures in its collection: The Temple of Dendur. The family has also gifted a wing at the Louvre; a courtyard at the Victoria and Albert Museum; a center for feminist art at the Brooklyn Museum; and an arts education center at the Guggenheim Museum of Art; and donated to dozens of other institutions, including the National Gallery, the Tate, the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History.
As lawsuits in recent years have brought more information to light about the Sacklers' role in the opioid crisis, however, several institutions have come under pressure to return gifts and remove the Sackler name from their facilities.
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