Netflix's "Painkiller" follows the controversial Sackler family as they develop the drug OxyContin. On the six-episode drama, none of the Sackler family members face legal repercussions directly. Here ...

North Carolina's attorney general is the latest to file a lawsuit against the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma as part of an effort to address the opioid epidemic. Purdue Pharma files ...

Updated June 27, 2024 at 16:12 PM ET The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday invalidated a controversial bankruptcy deal involving Purdue Pharma, maker of the highly addictive painkiller Oxycontin, and ...

Two members of the wealthy Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP offered apologies on Thursday for the role the prescription painkiller has played in the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic ...

In July 2011, Mortimer and Kathe’s cousin Dr. Richard Sackler, who had stepped down as Purdue’s president several years earlier but remained an influential board member, went into the field with a ...

A $7.4 billion settlement agreement with the founders of Purdue Pharma is almost sealed in ink — and Utah will get $57 million from the deal. Utah, along with 54 qualifying jurisdictions, has now ...

It’s almost official. Utah is close to signing a settlement to receive $57 million in an agreement with the Sackler family and its former pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, the manufacturers of ...

The New Jersey attorney general's office filed a lawsuit against members of the billionaire family behind pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma, alleging that the company's marketing strategies ...