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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

They were inspired to dive back into the subject last summer after the Supreme Court blocked a Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan and ruled that the owners, the Sackler family, would not be immune from ...