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The body counts have been staggering.

And the coffins stretch from West Virginia to West Vancouver and all points in between. Young, old, rich, poor, black and white.

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Now, the billionaire family being fingered for triggering the opioid crisis ravaging North America are being shunned by high society.

The New York Post reports that the Sackler family — who own Purdue Pharma — have gone from the belles of the ball to pariahs.

It’s gotten so bad that the famously philanthropic clan can’t even give their money away.

Prescription opioids have killed more than 200,000 people since Purdue’s OxyContin hit the market in 1996, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“They, unfortunately, symbolize all that is wrong with the epidemic. Their reputations are in the cesspool,” one socialite told thePost.

“There is a reluctance to hobnob and socialize [with] and openly stand next to the Sacklers. They aren’t being invited to small dinners on Fifth Avenue.”