The UK's Tate galleries will no longer accept donations from the Sackler family, whose company is accused of contributing to the opioid crisis in the US by aggressively marketing OxyContin while denying its association with overdose and death
As criticism mounts over its purported connection with America's opioid crisis, the Sackler family may be falling out of favor with the art world.
British gallery group Tate said Thursday that it will no longer accept donations from the family, which owns pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma LP. The Sacklers have donated more than £4 million -- about $5.3 million -- to the group in the past, a Tate spokesperson told CNN.
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