The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller oxycontin, have reached a $7.4 billion settlement ...

Colorado is set to receive around $81 million from a $7.4 billion preliminary settlement with Purdue Pharma, the company’s ...

Rural counties in Southwest Pennsylvania are quickly matching pace with the region’s urban center in overdose medication ...

A new opioid database could provide some with a brand-new start to 2025.The Charleston Center recently released a real-time ...

If you had a machine that was manufacturing bullets in the commonwealth and you sold them, you couldn’t do that legally," a ...

For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug Administration approved the opioid OxyContin for the treatment of chronic pain.

Rooting Out the Root Cause of the Opioid Crisis. I read with interest your detailed coverage of how states are spending billions of fu ...

Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family that own the company have agreed to a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with 15 ...

The settlement payout will be delivered “directly” to communities over the next 15 years to support opioid addiction ...

At their bimonthly meeting Monday, Baltimore City Council members introduced legislation designed to improve health care for children and help emergency personnel respond to the opioid crisis.

The DOJ accuses Walgreens of dispensing unlawful opioid prescriptions and violating federal health laws, alleging the ...