New York, New Jersey and 13 other states that previously opposed a controversial bankruptcy plan for Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma have reached a deal that clears the way for a $4.5 billion settlement — possibly the “most that individuals have ever paid for breaking the law.”…
NYC and 21 Counties in New York File Lawsuit Against McKinsey & Company Over Opioid Crisis…
New York City and 21 of New York’s counties have announced a lawsuit against consulting firm McKinsey & Company…
Empire of Pain: Meet the Elite Merchants Who Got Americans Hooked on Drugs…
A sweeping account of Big Pharma’s first family provides a full and damning picture of their moral culpability for the opioid crisis…
Walmart Files Pre-Emptive Lawsuit Against Federal Government in Opioid Case…
Walmart, which operates more than 5,000 in-store pharmacies in the U.S., said the government’s “threatened action would be unprecedented.”…
Justice Department Announces Global Resolution of Criminal and Civil Investigations with Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma and Civil Settlement with Members of the Sackler Family…
Today’s resolution does not resolve claims that states may have against Purdue or members of the Sackler family, nor does it impede the debtors’ ability to recover any fraudulent transfers…
Sackler Scions Ditch New York for Switzerland in Wake of Opioid Scandal…
Members of the Purdue Pharma family engulfed in the opiod crisis have sold their $38million Upper East Side townhouse and moved to Europe. Mortimer Sackler, son of the late founder and a former board member of the OxyContin producer, and his wife Jacqueline have told friends they will be spending ‘the winter term’ at Gstaad, […]
Pharma Founder Gets 66 Months for Bribing Doctors to Overprescribe Deadly Opioids…
How Chemists, Chinese Factories, and ‘Dark Web’ Dealers Spread Fentanyl Across the U.S….
The Wizard of OxyContin—where is he now? That nickname, revealed in leaked documents, belonged to an employee of Abbott Laboratories, which partnered with Purdue Pharmaceuticals to sell the drug. Starting in the late 1990s, he and his colleagues canvassed clinics around the country, hard-selling doctors on their flagship product. Purdue wooed doctors taught to distrust […]
Study: Opioid Deaths Rise in Towns Where U.S. Auto Plants Have Closed…
You Can’t Make This Chit Up: Big Pharma Company Behind Addictive OxyContin Is Now Peddling Its Overdose Cure…
The gleaming white booth towered over the medical conference in Italy in October, advertising a new brand of antidote for opioid overdoses. “Be prepared. Get naloxone. Save a life,” the slogan on its walls said. Some conference attendees were stunned when they saw the company logo: Mundipharma, the international affiliate of Purdue Pharma — the […]
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