At age 62, April Dawson lives every day with chronic pain from wrist arthritis. “There are a lot of everyday things I…
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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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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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Insurer To Purdue Pharma: We Won’t Pay For OxyContin Anymore
by Blake Farmer September 12, 2018Enlarge this image Despite abuse deterrent formulation, Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin continues to be used by some people with opioid addiction to get…
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There’s no shortage of statistics about the depth of America’s opioid epidemic — there were 72,000 overdose deaths just last year —…
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Doctors In Maine Say Halt In OxyContin Marketing Comes ’20 Years Late’
by Patty Wight February 13, 2018Enlarge this image Bottles of Purdue Pharma L.P. OxyContin medication sit on a pharmacy shelf in Provo, Utah, in 2016. George Frey/Bloomberg…