Officials at troubled drugmaker Purdue Pharma say “certain employees” should be paid more than $34 million in bonuses for meeting and exceeding goals over the last three years, even though the company is facing thousands of lawsuits over its role in the nation’s opioid crisis and earlier this week filed for bankruptcy. In a legal […]
Here’s How Oxycontin’s Purdue Pharma’s Bankruptcy Will Affect Pending Litigation…
Purdue Pharma’s recent bankruptcy filing will effectively halt more than 2,000 lawsuits filed against the company, and could mark the beginning of a “potentially endless process,” experts told FOX Business. Arguably most known for making billions in the sale of the highly addictive prescription opioid OxyContin, Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in White […]
The Sackler Family, OxyContin Heirs, Find Buyer for $6.5M Manhattan Condo…
Purdue Pharma Files for Bankruptcy Amid Deluge of Lawsuits …
12 Million Pills and 700 Deaths: How a Few Pill Mills Helped Fan the U.S. Opioid Inferno by Del Quentin Wilber…
Soon after he took over as medical director of the Urgent Care & Surgery Center in eastern Tennessee in 2012, Dr. Marc Valley realized he was supervising illegal drug dealers in lab coats. Platoons of patients socialized in the parking lot, none seemingly afflicted by injuries. The packed waiting room echoed with chatter about how […]
REPORT: Obama Admin Had the Chance to Cripple the Massive Global Heroin Trade, But Chose to Play Politics Instead…
The Obama administration reportedly had the chance to cripple the global heroin trade funding terrorism in war-torn Afghanistan, but it shelved the plan to advance a broader political agenda. The administration, citing political concerns, shut down a plan to stop the spread of narcotics around the world, prevent Afghanistan’s emergence as a narco-state, and sever […]
REPORT: Here’s How the Taliban’s Black Market Sales of Opioids Exploded Under Obama…
The Opioid Diaries…
‘ONCE YOU’RE INTO HEROIN, IT’S ALMOST LIKE A RELATIONSHIP WITH A PERSON YOU LOVE. AND LETTING GO OF THAT, THE THOUGHT OF NEVER SEEING SOMEONE I LOVE AGAIN—I COULDN’T IMAGINE GIVING IT UP FOREVER.’ DAN, A HOMELESS USER IN SAN FRANCISCO…
Small-Town American Budgets Devastated by Opioid Crisis as 41 States Subpoena Big Pharma…
A surge in Opioid consumption, primarily prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl – a drug 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine – and the resulting spike in overdose related deaths is devastating families in rural America. But the opioid epidemic is laying waste to more than just the broken families…
After 16 Years of War, Afghanistan Still World’s Heroin Supplier…
On Monday, President Donald Trump revealed many substantive changes to U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, but the longest war in U.S. history cannot be won without confronting narco-terrorism. After 16 years and billions of U.S. dollars spent, Afghanistan now supplies more than 75 percent of the world’s heroin and the region hosts…