A $7.4 billion settlement has been reached with the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma over their role in the opioid crisis, which has resulted in over 500,000 overdose deaths in the U.S.

The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive ... with a bipartisan coalition of 15 states for fueling the opioid crisis, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced ...

Several US states have reached a $7.4 billion settlement with the Sackler family and their pharmaceutical company Purdue over the opioid crisis that has ravaged the lives of millions of Americans ...

The $7.4 billion settlement was agreed "in principle with members of the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma for their instrumental role in creating the opioid crisis," New York ...

If approved, the new plan would end the costliest corporate bankruptcy resulting from the U.S. opioid crisis. Purdue, under the leadership of the Sackler families, invented, manufactured and ...

“The settlement ends the Sacklers’s control of Purdue and ability ... from the documentary film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, about the opioid crisis in the US For many people, opioid ...

Facing an avalanche of litigation, in 2021 Purdue pled guilty to three criminal charges over its marketing of OxyContin. The Sacklers have consistently denied wrongdoing over the opioid crisis. gw/bgs ...

with another $900 million coming from Purdue, without fully shutting off lawsuits from states, local governments, or individual victims of the opioid crisis. Those who do not wish to join the ...

This is the latest in a number of lawsuits targeting those responsible for creating and fueling the country’s opioid crisis. In Colorado, the Purdue agreement brings the total amount of opioid ...