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

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.

An ongoing investigation by GoLocal starting in 2017 into the opioid crisis and the devastating effect it has had on Rhode ...

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 ...

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

Harris unmistakably exposes Johnson & Johnson as a longtime corporate scoundrel, as harmful to public welfare as was its ...

Actor Jeremy Renner said getting off OxyContin was even more brutal than surviving the snowcat accident that nearly crushed him to death: ...

Purdue Pharma has agreed to pay $270 million to ... Privately-held Purdue – owned by the billionaire Sackler family – is not commenting on the Oklahoma case, which also accuses other companies ...