After nearly a decade of annual upticks in overdose deaths, the city saw a drop in 2023, the latest data available. Something ...

After reading a recent Sun-Times investigation on opioid deaths among a generation of Black men, columnist Alden Loury ...

Stefan Kertesz, a physician and addiction expert, says overaggressive cutbacks can harm some chronic pain patients.

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Montana is expected to receive more than $16 million from a legal settlement reached by a coalition of states that sued Purdue Pharma and the family that owns it for their role in stoking the ...

Maine stands to receive at least $235 million over the next two decades in national settlement funds from companies accused of supercharging the opioid epidemic. Biddeford will receive ...

“The Sackler family relentlessly pursued profit at the expense of vulnerable patients, and played a critical role in starting and fuelling the opioid epidemic,” James said in a statement.

and other creditors that have sued the company and its Sackler family owners over their roles in the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic. Purdue attorney Benjamin Kaminetsky said at a court hearing in ...

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 ...

Publicis Groupe SA agreed Thursday to pay $350 million to settle claims it helped OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma fuel the opioids epidemic in the United States. Oregon officials declared a 90-day ...

Clark County may yet help the city of Vancouver pay for a planned homeless shelter in the Van Mall neighborhood. The county’s previous refusal to commit funds caused a rift between the county ...

Contentions largely concern U.S. trade imbalances and the synthetic opioid fentanyl - which is fuelling a national epidemic that killed nearly 75,000 people in 2023. Reuters reporters last year ...