Isaac Sackler once told his three boys, what I have given you is the most important thing a father can give - a good name. Well, the Sackler name is now forever entwined with the company Purdue Pharma ...

The billionaire former owners of OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma are on the verge of a deal that will massively increase their financial contribution to a nationwide US opioids settlement, a new court ...

The opioid crisis in America comes into sharp focus in the new Netflix original series Painkiller, based on the book Pain Killer by Barry Meier and the New Yorker Magazine article "The Family That ...

NPR is celebrating Books We Love from 2021. It's way better than any best-of book list because it lets you sort by categories, like eye-opening read or seriously great writing. And "Empire Of Pain" by ...