Cutting out the wound –

December 5, 2019 – Dr. Harris A. Berman, the dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine observed, “They feel the names are incongruous with the mission of the school and what we’re trying to teach them, since the name has become synonymous with the opioid epidemic,” he said. “I think the significance is symbolic, but it’s an important symbolic move.”  An attorney for Sackler family members blasted the university’s decision, calling it “particularly disturbing and intellectually dishonest” to “remove the name of a donor who made gifts in good faith starting almost forty years ago.”  Tufts decision follows a series of major cultural institutions, including the Tate, Britain’s National Portrait Gallery and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, announced this year that they would no longer take donations from the Sacklers.

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