Goldin, who survived an addiction to OxyContin after being prescribed it, held another protest earlier this year at the Guggenheim and outside the Met. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will no longer accept donations from members of the Sackler family, owner of Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin, a drug some experts partly blame for the US opioid crisis. The museum said it would not renew its contract with the family to host an annual dinner in May and that it had "decided to end our relationship with them. " Purdue faces lawsuits from over 1,500 US cities, counties and states, with eight members of the Sackler family currently accused of being knowingly involved in over-prescribing OxyContin and underplaying the risk of addiction.
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will no longer accept donations from members of the Sackler family, owner of Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin, a drug some experts partly blame for the US opioid crisis. The museum said it would not renew its contract with the family to host an annual dinner in May and that it had "decided to end our relationship with them." Purdue faces lawsuits from over 1,500 US cities, counties and states, with eight members of the Sackler family currently accused of being knowingly involved in over-prescribing OxyContin and underplaying the risk of addiction.