The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller oxycontin, have reached a $7.4 billion settlement ...

The new settlement was agreed with more than a dozen US states and other individuals who had filed lawsuits against the company. As part of the agreement, the Sackler family will pay $6.5bn over ...

Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, have reached a $7.4bn settlement with US states to resolve a long-running legal saga involving the pain medication Oxycontin and its role in fuelling ...

If a new deal is not approved, it could open the floodgates to lawsuits against Sackler family members. A U.S. bankruptcy judge is expected to decide Friday whether to keep temporary protections ...

OxyContin is widely acknowledged to have catalysed the national opioid crisis in the US. Image credit: Shutterstock/ PureRadiancePhoto. Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, have reached a ...

Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, have reached a $7.4bn settlement with US states to resolve a long-running legal saga involving the pain medication Oxycontin and its role in ...

Under the new proposal, members of the Sackler family who own Purdue would contribute ... opioids have been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths in the U.S. The deadliest stretch has been ...

"The Sackler family relentlessly pursued profit at the ... after taking over the agency six days ago. Feb. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations intercepted ...

Sackler family to pay $6.5 billion for their role in ‘fueling’ opioid epidemic which has killed hundreds of thousands - Sackler family, who owned pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, will no longer b ...