Richard Sackler, MD, a former Purdue Pharma executive and member of the billionaire family that founded and controls the company, embraced a plan to conceal OxyContin’s strength in an effort to boost ...

The Sackler family has agreed to relinquish control of its longtime company, Purdue Pharma, and cease all sales of opioids in the United States as part of an historic $7.4 billion settlement that has ...

(WJET/WFXP) — Purdue Pharma asked a bankruptcy judge late Tuesday to consider the latest version of its plan to settle ...

The Supreme Court in June rejected a $6 billion bankruptcy settlement negotiated by Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, with victims of the opioid epidemic. That decision has now put an ...

WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - 2021/12/03: People from across the United States, who lost loved ones due to the opioid epidemic, rallied at the Department of Justice in Washington DC, calling on ...

Purdue Pharma will go back to court Tuesday after the Supreme Court thwarted the OxyContin maker’s multibillion-dollar bankruptcy settlement, which would have shielded members of the Sackler family ...

Purdue filed for bankruptcy in 2019 in the face of thousands of lawsuits accusing it and members of the Sackler family of fueling the epidemic through deceptive marketing of OxyContin. REUTERS Purdue ...

Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family will pay $7.4 billion for their role in the opioid epidemic. Delaware will receive over $27 million from the settlement. The settlement comes just shy of a year ...

Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription ...

Following the release of Netflix’s Painkiller, the Sackler family’s net worth in 2024 has become a subject of curiosity. Once famous for its contributions to the pharmaceutical and art worlds, the ...