Despite medical advances and health scares, thousands of U.S. doctors continue to prescribe opioids to treat pain, keeping ...

Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, have reached a $7.4bn settlement with US states to resolve a long-running legal saga involving the pain medication Oxycontin and its role in ...

Purdue Pharma and its controlling Sackler family have offered a new settlement to resolve lawsuits over their involvement in the opioid epidemic, raising the payout from the Sacklers to $6 billion.

With over 200,000 opioid-related deaths in the U.S. alone, the Sackler family has come under intense scrutiny for their role ...

The Justice Department argued that shielding the… OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma can start its transformation under a bankruptcy agreement that allows the members of the wealthy Sackler family ...

Purdue Pharma and Sackler family members to pay $7.4B in national opioid settlement State AGs have reached a new opioid ...

Producers discuss Wednesday’s conclusion of the long-running “Roseanne” spin-off, in which the Conner family sued opioid ...

"Purdue Pharma is the reason the Sackler family are billionaires, and after today's settlement they will remain billionaires," said the group's research director Rick Claypool.

Taunton City Councilor Estele Borges said the city lacks a "sense of urgency" in spending $1.5M to fight the opioid crisis.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced Thursday, Jan. 23, that a bipartisan coalition of states and other parties have reached a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with members of th ...

There have been about $50 billion in settlements over the past several years, with the most recent being the $7.4 billion announced in January by Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family.