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 ...

Purdue Pharma’s former president Richard Sackler, MD, knew his company’s opioid painkiller OxyContin was being abused, but still pushed sales to physicians and tried to divert the blame to patients ...

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North Carolina's attorney general is the latest to file a lawsuit against the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma as part of an effort to address the opioid epidemic. Purdue Pharma files ...

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 ...

Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin, conducted what may be the most extensive investigation yet of the Sackler family, exploring whether they committed crimes or financial improprieties, but the ...

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BOSTON — Tufts University removed the Sackler name from five facilities and programs Thursday over the family’s role in the opioid epidemic, a gesture aimed at distancing the institution from a ...

NEW YORK — The scraps of paper swirled through the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday night like confetti, thrown from an upper walkway into the central rotunda before floating to the ground.

It’s almost official. Utah is close to signing a settlement to receive $57 million in an agreement with the Sackler family and its former pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, the manufacturers of ...