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, ...

The US witnessed an increase in synthetic opioid-related deaths after 2013, mainly due to the rapid proliferation of ...

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 ...

in 2021 Purdue pled guilty to three criminal charges over its marketing of OxyContin. The Sacklers have consistently denied wrongdoing over the opioid crisis. The settlement featured some 15 ...

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 ...

SCARPONE SAYS NO AMOUNT OF MONEY CAN UNDO THE DEVASTATION OF THE OPIOID CRISIS FUELED BY THE COMPANIES THAT PUSHED ADDICTIVE AND DEADLY DRUGS. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT WITH EVERYTHING WE HAVE ...

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said that the settlement would help provide closure to victims of the opioid crisis. “It’s not just about the money,” Tong said. “There is not ...

Purdue Pharma will pay nearly $900 million In 2021, a $5.5 billion settlement ... who helped spark the opioid crisis decades ago, for years have avoided accountability,” State Attorney General ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) - Attorney General Jeff Jackson has announced a settlement with Purdue Pharma for role in creating the opioid crisis. According to a press release, Purdue and its owners, the ...

THOSE SUITS ALLEGED OXYCONTIN PAIN MEDICATION, LED TO THE COUNTRY’S OPIOID ADDICTION CRISIS. NORTH CAROLINA IS ONE OF 16 STATES INVOLVED IN THIS SETTLEMENT. OUR ATTORNEY GENERAL, JEFF JACKSON ...

If approved, the new plan would end the costliest corporate bankruptcy resulting from the U.S. opioid crisis. Purdue, under the leadership of the Sackler families, invented, manufactured and ...