Reuters Report: How Judges’ Secrecy Has Added to Toll of Opioids and Other Products June 25, 2019 By Benjamin Lesser, Dan Levine, Lisa Girion and Jaimi Dowdell WELCH, West Virginia —The opioid epidemic that has so far killed half a million Americans is routinely blamed on greedy...
Nevada’s Attorney General Files Wide-Ranging Opioid Lawsuit June 19, 2019 By Michelle L. Price Nevada’s attorney general expanded the state’s lawsuit against the maker of the opioid OxyContin this week to include the company’s...
Sackler Family Sued Again Over Toll of Prescription Opioids June 3, 2019 New Jersey is suing eight members of the family that founded opioid drug maker Purdue Pharma over the lethal toll...
5 More States Sue Purdue Over OxyContin Marketing May 17, 2019 By Erik Larson and Jef Feeley Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners are being sued by five more states alleging the company’s aggressive marketing of...
Maker of OxyContin Gets Hit with Another State Lawsuit May 16, 2019 By Geoff Mulvihill The company that makes OxyContin did not stop pitching the powerful opioid painkiller to doctors even when its sales representatives...
Indictment Alleges New York Pharma Ex-CEO Ignored Red Flags as Opioid Crisis Raged April 25, 2019 By Michael R. Sisak The pharmaceutical industry executive hit Tuesday with criminal charges stemming from the opioid crisis doesn’t have his name on a...
Wyoming’s Opioid-Related Deaths Low, But Still A Concern April 9, 2019 Opioid abuse and related deaths in Wyoming have not reached the crisis levels of some other states, but remain a...
Purdue’s Sackler Family Asks Judge to Toss Massachusetts Opioid Case April 3, 2019 By Nate Raymond Members of the Sackler family behind OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP have asked a judge to toss a lawsuit by...
Vermont Sues Two Prescription Opioid Distributors March 29, 2019 By Lisa Rathke Vermont filed a lawsuit against two pharmaceutical distributors, accusing them of selling ever-increasing amounts of prescription opioids in the state...
Purdue Pharma Owners Sued by New York Over Opioid Addiction Epidemic March 29, 2019 By Erik Larson The billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma LP were sued by New York state for allegedly triggering a U.S. addiction epidemic...