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 ...
Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself ... deal that was rejected last year by the U.S. Supreme Court. In the new one, the Sacklers agreed to pay ...
The latest settlement is meant to address a drug addiction crisis that has led to over 700,000 opioid overdose deaths in the US over the past two decades.