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 ...

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

Multiple states have reached a tentative new agreement with the Sackler family, who made billions of dollars marketing OxyContin, the drug that set off the U.S. opioid crisis. New York State Attorney ...

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

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 [email protected]. Opioid abuse tells a tragic American story ...