> So, take it from me, a historian of opioids: if you want to learn how one family and their company caused arguably the biggest ongoing public health crisis in the US, but you only have the time to read one book on the subject, it should be Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty.

To say that Perdue Pharma caused the crisis seems too strong. The crisis was caused by people making bad decisions against a background of economic and social disintegration.