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Mass. To Receive An Estimated $90 Million Settlement From Sackler Family In Massive Opioid Suit
Purdue Pharma will cease to exist, and the Sacklers are banned from selling opioids. -
Massachusetts Agrees To Settlement Plan For Opioid-Maker Purdue
The Commonwealth joins 14 other states in the agreement. -
Overdose Deaths Rose During The War On Drugs, But Efforts To Reduce Them Face Backlash
Every time Shani Damron, 34, buys methamphetamines or heroin on the streets of Huntington, W.Va., she knows the risk is extreme."That fentanyl is no… -
Oregon's Pioneering Drug Decriminalization Experiment Is Now Facing The Hard Test
Last fall Oregon voters decriminalized possession of small amounts of almost all hard drugs, taking a groundbreaking step away from the arrest, charge and… -
Sackler Family Empire Poised To Win Immunity From Opioid Lawsuits
After more than a year of high stakes negotiations with billions of dollars on the line, a bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin,… -
How The Sackler Family Profited Off Of Lies And Addiction
In "Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty," Boston native Patrick Radden Keefe exposes how the Sackler family of Purdue Pharma made money off selling the addictive painkiller OxyContin despite knowing the medical risks to patients. -
Why New Guidelines For Opioid Treatment Are A 'Big Deal'
More medical practitioners are being allowed to prescribe buprenorphine under new guidelines from the Biden administration.The change means that the drug… -
U.S. Corporations Face Reckoning Over Prescription Opioids, CEOs Keep Cashing In
Imagine you're part of a project that goes horribly wrong at work, causing a scandal, costing your company a ton of money, maybe even putting people at… -
Hospital Emergency Rooms Struggle With Overdose Spike During Pandemic
The CDC says hospitals saw a lot more emergency cases involving drug overdoses, as well as mental health crises and suicide attempts. Many emergency departments weren't ready. -
With All Eyes On Pandemic, State Funding For Opioid Addiction Services Has Been Cut
Despite opioid-related deaths on the rise since last year, most of Massachusetts' public health money has been channeled away from combating substance use disorder in order to fight COVID-19.
