Protesters took the Guggenheim Museum in New York by storm on Saturday as they called for the museum to remove the Sackler name from one of its iconic wings -- funded by the family that owns Purdue Pharma, which created and manufactured OxyContin. The Sackler family also has wings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Louvre in Paris. It was recently reported that opioid overdoses are one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and that Americans are more likely to die of an opioid overdose than in a car crash. According to CDC statistics, nearly 218,000 died from prescription opioid overdoses alone from 1999 to 2017. Fox News has contacted the Guggenheim for a comment on the recent protest.

Source: Fox News February 10, 2019 15:40 UTC