Opioid protest targets donors to New York City museum
NEW YORK — Activists protesting a prominent donor family’s link to the opioid crisis unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles inside New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The New York Times reported that the protest started just after 4 p.m. Saturday inside the museum’s Sackler Wing. The wing is named after brothers Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, who donated $3.5 million for the gallery in the 1970s.
Mortimer and Raymond Sackler also owned Purdue Pharma, the company that developed OxyContin, a widely prescribed and widely abused painkiller.