On Monday, the Supreme Court will take on one of its highest-profile bankruptcy cases in recent memory: Whether or not to approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma's controversial agreement that would ...

(Bloomberg) -- Bankrupt Purdue Pharma LP and its owners have agreed to pay $7.4 billion to a group of US states and other parties to settle long-running litigation over OxyContin’s role in the deadly ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., escalated her back and forth with the pharmaceutical industry Wednesday, announcing she would donate to charity an amount equal to the funds she has received in ...

The art philanthropist family, though not named in the lawsuit, will contribute $75 million to fund a new addiction treatment and research center at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa. Exterior shot ...

BOSTON — Tufts University removed the Sackler name from five facilities and programs Thursday over the family’s role in the opioid epidemic, a gesture aimed at distancing the institution from a ...

Tufts University last month announced it would cut ties to the Sackler family — the owners of Purdue Pharma, which makes the opioid pain medicine OxyContin — and began removing the Sackler name from a ...

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Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company infamous for fueling the opioid overdose crisis in the U.S., has been erased from history. On the 14th, the New York Times (NYT) reported that a U.S. court ...