NEW YORK CITY: Metropolitan Museum of Art removes name of Sacklers, family linked to opioid crisis

NBC NEWS: The Met said seven exhibition spaces named in honor of the late Dr. Mortimer Sackler and Dr. Raymond Sackler and their descendants will no longer carry the moniker.

"The Museum and the families of Dr. Mortimer Sackler and Dr. Raymond Sackler have mutually agreed to take this action in order to allow The Met to further its core mission," the museum said in a statement.

The Sackler family owns Purdue Pharma, makers of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, which has been blamed for hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths.

The family agreed that it was best for all parties that the Sackler family name no long be connected of the country's most famous cultural institutions.

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