Last week’s settlement that would see Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, pay $7.4 billion to resolve lawsuits filed by state and local governments across the country is ...

Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll ...

A Williamsburg-based recovery advocate said she hopes the money will help local families and communities impacted by the crisis.

U.S. officials have approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioids.

Multiple states have reached a tentative new agreement with the Sackler family, who made billions of dollars marketing OxyContin, the drug that set ... while their privately held company, Purdue ...

Purdue was instrumental in creating the US opioid crisis via aggressive marketing that did not reflect the true addiction ...

Opioid abuse tells a tragic American story since avoidable deaths began in the 1990s. Nearly 700,000 people lost their lives to overdoses of OxyContin and offshoots of the highly addictive painkiller.

This is a guest editorial by CNHI columnist . Cooney is a columnist for the Traverse City (Michigan) Record-Eagle. Reach her at megan.cooney1@gmail.com. Opioid abuse tells a tragic American story ...

Last week, members of the Sackler family, which owns the pharmaceutical company known for selling OxyContin, agreed to a $7.4 ...