Just as a compass always points north, accusatory fingers always find a point source of blame. From witches to martyrs to ...

North Carolina is poised to receive $150 million from a new multi-state legal settlement with pharmaceutical company Purdue ...

Iowa’s share of a legal settlement with the maker of the opioid drug OxyContin is nearly $38 million. Iowa Attorney General ...

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Six years later, the result is “Young Firecrackers,” a five-part memoir written by Rehn and four of his high school friends who survived addiction: Ashley Mercurio, Ryan Bernstein, Andrew Theriot and ...

Purdue prepares to pay up, leaving unanswered questions about justice, accountability and how hundreds of thousands of lives ...

OxyContin hit the market in 1996. Since then, opioids have been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United ...

A judge has advanced OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's $7 billion-plus plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

A judge intends to rule this week on a plan for local governments and individual victims to vote on OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma ‘s latest plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids could soon move forward after every U.S. state involved agreed to it. A judge on Wednesday ...

For the first time, an advertising company that worked on Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin account has settled a lawsuit that accused it of falsely marketing opioids as safe. Publicis, a French ...