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If a person has major surgery chances are they were prescribed opioids. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and many others are all different types of opioids typically prescribed by doctors to treat ...

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's efforts to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids is on the verge of approval ...

The new agreement replaces one the US Supreme Court rejected last year, finding it would have improperly protected members of ...

A judge said he will approve a $7 billion settlement between the maker of OxyContin and people with addiction, states, ...

Under the plan, the company will dissolve and its owners, members of the Sackler family, will pay as much as $7 billion of ...

The ruling, delivered Friday by Judge Sean Lane, brings Purdue’s winding six-year insolvency towards its conclusion and ...

Hundreds of people are on a waitlist for opioid addiction treatment in Los Angeles County jails as the state presses the system to reduce overdoses and in-custody deaths.

A bankruptcy judge on Friday said he would sign off on a deal that forces Purdue Pharma and its billionaire owners to pay out ...