British Columbia's attorney general says the B.C. Supreme Court has certified the province's class-action lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors. Niki Sharma says B.C. can now ...

Purdue Pharma and the Sackler families agreed Thursday to increase their financial contribution to $7.4 billion to resolve mass opioid litigation. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control ...

Tris Pharma has pointed to a phase 3 win for its pain relief drug as demonstrating the candidate’s potential to help resolve the opioid crisis. The company tested cebranopadol, a dual nociceptin ...

Purdue Pharma LP’s Sackler family owners have joined a proposed settlement that would allow the OxyContin maker to exit bankruptcy and put more than $6 billion toward resolving opioid-related ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit late last week against Walgreens alleging the company and its subsidiaries unlawfully dispensed and sought reimbursement for “millions” of ...

COLUMBUS, Ind. — A Columbus woman and man were arrested earlier this month after their 3-year-old child was taken to a hospital after a reported opioid overdose. According to a news release from ...

Attempting to reduce fatal opioid overdoses and encourage more people to seek treatment, fire department paramedics in Kitsap County will start administering the medication buprenorphine in the ...

Walgreens is also on the hook for massive payouts to resolve its role in the opioid crisis, which has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans over the past decade. More than ...

Yet away from the live television cameras and microphones, Oake would often find himself juggling work calls with those coming either from, or about, his first-born son, Bruce — whose struggles with ...

In eastern Kentucky, a region that is plagued by poverty and is at the heart of the country’s opioid epidemic, the burden of addressing this treatment gap has mainly been taken up by addiction ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) hit drugstore chain Walgreens with a lawsuit this week for filling “unlawful” opioid prescriptions that had no “legitimate” medical purpose for over a decade.