Paris ' s museum has taken the Sackler name from its collection after protests due to the philanthropic family 's link to the US opioid emergency . Representatives of the Sackler family have been contacted for comment. US art photographer # ##do is leading a campaign lobbying art institutions in the US and UK to cut ties with the Sackler name , and the Louvre to rename its eastern antiquities wing , as the legal period for the donors ' name - rights has expired after 20 years . One branch of the family , which runs the pharmaceuticals firm behind the addictive painkiller OxyContin , has been accused of profiting from the crisis .
Paris ' s museum has taken the Sackler name from its collection after protests due to the philanthropic family 's link to the US opioid emergency . US art photographer # ##do is leading a campaign lobbying art institutions in the US and UK to cut ties with the Sackler name , and the Louvre to rename its eastern antiquities wing , as the legal period for the donors ' name - rights has expired after 20 years . One branch of the family , which runs the pharmaceuticals firm behind the addictive painkiller OxyContin , has been accused of profiting from the crisis .