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Opioid Activists Want Drug Marketer’s Name Gone From Harvard Building; Widow Says He’s Not To Blame

Matthew McDonald

Dozens of protesters from opioid-death grief groups showed up outside a Harvard art museum calling for the university to remove the name of a drug manufacturer who donated most of the money to build it.

Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), a psychiatrist, made a fortune directly marketing drugs such as Valium to physicians. His brothers used his money and his methods after he died to market OxyContin, an addictive opioid painkiller widely blamed for the current widespread drug abuse problem.

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Smiling Naked Man Crashes Into Yard, Walks Into House

Matthew McDonald

A man who crashed his sport utility vehicle into a back yard while not wearing any clothes was arrested after the homeowners found him in their house – and then mugged for his mug shot.

The driver, 35, of Watertown, Connecticut, offered a winning smile with his head cocked slightly to the right while sporting a johnny hospital gown when police took his picture at the police station in Newtown, Connecticut, where the incident took place.

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