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I’m sorry, what? How can Chelsea & Westminster Hospital’s official charity *possibly* accept a £1 million ‘donation’ - meaning, in reality, an attempt to buy public credibility - from the Sacklers? Yes, those Sacklers, whose company, Purdue Pharma, caused >800k deaths from pumping out opioids. 1/3

Dr Rachel Clarke

@drrachelclarke.com

This donation - to an NHS charity no less - is obscene, it’s blood money. The only reason the Sacklers are still making these public displays of ‘charitable’ largesse is to try and wash the bloodstains from their sordid reputation. Shame on CW+ for being their willing patsies. 2/3

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Ian McPhee

@igas2.bsky.social

8 Mar

The Sacklers were/are a curse on humanity. No health centre/service should bow to their influence.

Graham Davis

@agendaforreform.bsky.social

8 Mar

Watch the wonderful Netflix docu drama Painkiller on how OxyContin was sold and how the Sackler family made billions out of people’s addiction misery.

Dr Rachel Clarke

@drrachelclarke.com

8 Mar

Full piece (paywalled) here: www.thetimes.com/article/df94...

thetimes.comNHS hospital accepts £1m from Sackler opioid familyChelsea and Westminster Hospital’s charity took the donation from the dynasty whose painkillers are linked to tens of thousands of deaths

JonGlue

@jonglue.bsky.social

8 Mar

No such thing as clean money. E.g. the paywall on this article separates me from News Corp.