The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller oxycontin, have reached a $7.4 billion settlement ...

Rural counties in Southwest Pennsylvania are quickly matching pace with the region’s urban center in overdose medication ...

As Georgia navigates a widespread opioid addiction crisis, researchers in Kennesaw State University’s Wellstar School of ...

Cabell County and Huntington's eight-year legal fight with pain pill distributors had a critical round before the West Virginia Supreme Court.

If you had a machine that was manufacturing bullets in the commonwealth and you sold them, you couldn’t do that legally," a ...

For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug Administration approved the opioid OxyContin for the treatment of chronic pain.

At their bimonthly meeting Monday, Baltimore City Council members introduced legislation designed to improve health care for children and help emergency personnel respond to the opioid crisis.

Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family that own the company have agreed to a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with 15 ...

The settlement payout will be delivered “directly” to communities over the next 15 years to support opioid addiction ...

Purdue Pharma and Sackler family agree to a $7.4 billion settlement over opioid crisis lawsuits, pending court approval ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. survived heroin addiction and says that if confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human ...

The DOJ accuses Walgreens of dispensing unlawful opioid prescriptions and violating federal health laws, alleging the ...