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 ...

Shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance slid nearly 13% on Tuesday after news late last week of a new Justice Department lawsuit accusing the pharmacy chain of inappropriately dispensing millions of ...

Stripe, a payment technology company and the Bay Area’s second most valuable startup, sent layoff notices to 300 workers Monday - accidentally sending a cartoon picture along with the news.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday accused pharmacy chain operator Walgreens Boots Alliance of contributing to the U.S. opioid epidemic by filling millions of unlawful prescriptions for ...