The U.S. opioid crisis has entered a new phase. With a 24% decline in overdose deaths between September 2023 and 2024 (CDC, ...

In the early 2000s, most opioid deaths were linked to prescription drugs, including OxyContin. Since then, heroin and then illicitly produced fentanyl became the biggest killers.

Purdue Pharma’s $7 billion opioid settlement is set for votes from victims and cities A judge has advanced OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's $7 billion-plus plan to settle thousands of lawsuits ...

Purdue Pharma’s $7B opioid settlement plan could get votes from victims and cities Members of the Sackler family who own the company would pay up to $7 billion and give up ownership on the company.

Home Society Deadly opioid 40 times more powerful than fentanyl smuggled into Canada inside PlayStations, basketballs ...

In the new version, groups that don’t opt in to the settlement would still have the right to sue members of the wealthy family whose name once adorned museum galleries around the world and programs at ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Money from a national opioid lawsuit settlement is being used to pay for Summer Fun waivers for keiki on Oahu’s leeward coast. Officials say about $70,000 is going ...

In the early 2000s, most opioid deaths were linked to prescription drugs, including OxyContin. Since then, heroin and then illicitly produced fentanyl became the biggest killers. In some years, the ...

DEADWOOD — The office of South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackely announced the state has received a payment of $1,967,317.50 in its latest payment from the ongoing opioid settlement from ...

Iowa will receive $37.8 million in opioid settlement funds after the state signed onto a settlement agreement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler Family.

Missouri is beginning to distribute some of the nearly $900 million it expects to receive from opioid settlements over the next two decades. Included in that is a recent $300,000 grant to Kansas ...

Louisiana will receive nearly $70 million from the opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, aimed at addressing the state's opioid crisis.