Huntington and Cabell County officials and legal representatives continue to seek justice for the toll the opioid epidemic has taken on their communities. The West Virginia Supreme Court heard ...

The full text of the legislation can be found here. The opioid epidemic, a blight on the American landscape, has been exacerbated by the proliferation of fentanyl analogues—potent synthetic ...

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 ...

“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 ...

While he has publicly downplayed the fact, in part due to the far bigger impact of the pandemic on the wider public, the Covid-19 crisis did also impact on Mr Martin's personal political career.

Purdue Pharma will pay more than $7 billion for the corporation's role in fueling the opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma reached a ...

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 ...