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

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.

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 ...

The Supreme Court blocked the earlier agreement last year because it protected members of the wealthy family from civil lawsuits over OxyContin — even though the family members themselves were ...

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

This is a guest editorial by CNHI columnist . Cooney is a columnist for the Traverse City (Michigan) Record-Eagle. Reach her at [email protected]. Opioid abuse tells a tragic American story ...

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.

Officials in states and local governments claimed that the opioid crisis was exacerbated by Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin and ...