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Purdue Pharma Agrees To $270 Million Opioid Settlement With Oklahoma
by Martha Bebinger March 26, 2019Enlarge this image Purdue Pharma, headquartered in Stamford, Conn., the Sackler family, which owns the company, settled a case brought by the…
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Fentanyl-Linked Deaths: The U.S. Opioid Epidemic’s Third Wave Begins
by Martha Bebinger March 21, 2019Enlarge this image Authorities intercepted a woman using this drug kit in preparation for shooting up a mix of heroin and fentanyl…
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Lawsuit Details How The Sackler Family Allegedly Built An OxyContin Fortune
by Martha Bebinger February 1, 2019Enlarge this image Families that lost loved ones to the opioid crisis protested outside Suffolk Superior Court in Boston as lawyers for…
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Massachusetts Attorney General Implicates Family Behind Purdue Pharma In Opioid Deaths
by Martha Bebinger January 16, 2019Enlarge this image A filing by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey detailed the Sackler family’s role in Purdue Pharma’s marketing of OxyContin.…
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Enlarge this image Isela was denied life insurance because her medication list showed a prescription for the opioid-reversal drug naloxone. The Boston…
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Twin’s Difficult Birth Put A Project Designed To Reduce C-Sections To The Test
by Martha Bebinger November 24, 2018Enlarge this image Dr. Ruth Levesque (right) hands Shaun McDougall his newborn son Brady at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass. The…
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VA Adding Opioid Antidote To Defibrillator Cabinets For Quicker Overdose Response
by Martha Bebinger September 27, 2018It took more than 10 minutes for paramedics to arrive after a housekeeper found a man collapsed on the floor of a…