Purdue Pharma’s former president Richard Sackler, MD, knew his company’s opioid painkiller OxyContin was being abused, but still pushed sales to physicians and tried to divert the blame to patients ...

PARIS -- A unit of French advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA agreed Thursday to pay $350 million to settle claims it helped OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma fuel the opioid epidemic in the United ...

WASHINGTON — Purdue Pharma has gained support from attorneys general in 55 U.S. states and territories for a $7.4 billion settlement aimed at resolving thousands of lawsuits related to the opioid ...

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and a group of states have not been able to agree on a multibillion-dollar settlement of lawsuits over the drug’s role in the opioid crisis after more than a month of ...

Purdue Pharma begins several days of hearings Wednesday to finalize a $7.4 billion bankruptcy restricting plan that no longer fully protects the company’s owners, members of the Sackler families, from ...

NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters) - More than 99% of bankrupt drugmaker Purdue Pharma's creditors voted to accept a $7.4 billion settlement of legal claims related to the company's sales of addictive opioid ...

After a legal saga involving thousands of civil lawsuits, a Supreme Court ruling and what was once one of America’s wealthiest families, a U.S. bankruptcy judge has signed off on the $7.4 billion ...

NEW YORK- Purdue Pharma has won support from the attorneys general of 55 U.S. states and territories for its $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of opioid lawsuits against the drugmaker and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Purdue Pharma has won support from the attorneys general of 55 U.S. states and territories for its $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of opioid lawsuits against the ...