The deal represents an increase over a previous settlement rejected by the Supreme Court because it protected members of the wealthy Sackler family from civil lawsuits even though they were not in ...

Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners have reached a new opioid settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits.

How bad is the opioid crisis in Connecticut? If you combine motor vehicle accidents and gun violence in our state, more people die of opioid overdoses per year. That is why ...

Purdue Pharma, under the leadership of the Sackler family, manufactured and sold opioids like Oxycontin for decades.

Massachusetts residents who lost relatives to opioid overdoses expressed elation Thursday after the family that built its fortune on the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin agreed to a new deal to ...

Purdue Pharma and its owner, the Sackler family, will pay $7.4 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits. Those lawsuits alleged oxycontin pain medication led to the U.S. opioid addiction crisis. North ...

North Carolina will get a cut of a nationwide opioid settlement. Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners agreed to more than $7 billion. It is tied to claims that OxyContin caused a widespread ...

Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners have reached a new $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging that the pain medication OxyContin caused a widespread opioid addiction ...

The new settlement deal could net Pennsylvania and Delaware as much as $212 million and $27 million, respectively, in payouts.