University of Georgia got a $1.2 million grant from the 2021 national opioid settlement to help with resources in rural ...

The trust manages Georgia's share from a 2021 national settlement of several ... These funds are meant to combat and hopefully end the opioid crisis that has hurt and killed many people.

Although the crisis has shifted in the decades since — from prescription opioids to heroin to fentanyl — it has only grown more dire. Now more than 100,000 people die every year from opioid ...

Several US states have reached a $7.4 billion settlement with the Sackler family and their pharmaceutical company Purdue over the opioid crisis that has ravaged the lives of millions of Americans, ...

Sackler family, who owned pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, will no longer be in control of the company or permitted to sell opioids if the new settlement plan is approved ...

Purdue Pharma and the members of the Sackler family who own the company agreed in principle to pay a $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits over their alleged role in the opioid ...