The pharmaceutical company that allegedly inflamed the opioid crisis is finally being held accountable, and its reckoning has come, in part, from an unlikely source: the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Met will no longer accept donations from members of the Sackler family still associated with Purdue Pharma, which has been accused of misrepresenting the painkiller OxyContin to get more doctors to prescribe the addictive narcotic.

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