All 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories have agreed to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma, ...

Note: This story is a Journal Sentinel Watchdog Report that first ran on Sept. 8, 2012. Driving home from a hunting trip in 2008, Johnny Sullivan called his wife to say he was having trouble ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Why has OxyContin become the poster child for opioid abuse? The LA Times has a ...

For the first time, an advertising company that worked on Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin account has settled a lawsuit that accused it of falsely marketing opioids as safe. Publicis, a French ...

An advertising agency that helped develop marketing campaigns for OxyContin and other prescription painkillers has agreed to pay U.S. states $350 million rather than face the possibility of trials ...

When new “abuse-deterrent” OxyContin was crushed, it would turn to jelly, Novascone said. “It didn’t stop a damn thing,” she added. ADVERTISEMENT Like a burglar confronted with a new ...

South Carolina is set to receive nearly $73 million as part of a multi-billion-dollar settlement with pharmaceutical ...

Federal health officials say a new version of the painkiller OxyContin that is designed to be harder to abuse offers some improvements over the original pill. Purdue Pharma L.P. has touted the new ...

illegally marketed the opioid painkiller OxyContin by understating its addictive properties. Sackler, who has been at various times Purdue’s president and co-chairman of its board, testified for ...

That being Dr. Richard Sackler, a physician whose family founded Purdue Pharma, the company that makes and hyper-aggressively markets OxyContin. ADVERTISEMENT “Eight people in a single family ...

MILWAUKEE — Driving home from a hunting trip in 2008, Johnny Sullivan called his wife to say he was having trouble staying awake. It was early afternoon, but Mary Lou Sullivan wasn't surprised.