Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll ...

Last week’s settlement that would see Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, pay $7.4 billion to resolve lawsuits filed by state and local governments across the country is ...

A Williamsburg-based recovery advocate said she hopes the money will help local families and communities impacted by the crisis.

Last week’s settlement that would see Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, pay $7.4 billion to resolve lawsuits filed by state and local governments across the country is ...

Opioid abuse tells a tragic American story since avoidable deaths began in the 1990s. Nearly 700,000 people lost their lives to overdoses of OxyContin and offshoots of the highly addictive ...

U.S. officials have approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated ...

Pennsylvania looks likely to receive another big infusion of money from another court settlement over responsibility for the nation’s ongoing opioid epidemic.

Rockville Centre became the first diocese in New York with a confirmed reorganization plan, providing a potential blueprint ...

Under the new proposal, like the previous one, members of the Sackler family would also give up ownership of Purdue ... family from civil lawsuits over OxyContin — even though the family ...

Public health experts have concerns about the opioid reversal agent Opvee. But the company that makes it, Indivior, has found ...

A new painkiller that is said to be free of addiction risks may be transformative for treatment of acute pain, according to ...