The following lawsuits were announced or filed since Oct. 12 by counties, cities and states, seeking to recover funds spent addressing widespread illicit opioid use in each community. Plaintiffs named ...

The Ward County Detention Center is seeing success with an opioid use disorder treatment program that has been the first of its kind among jails in the state. “We’re an emerging model for corrections ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The City of Portage has spent roughly $52,000 of approximately $99,000 received from opioid settlement ...

Attorneys for a Pennsylvania healthcare giant are denying allegations its employees negligently caused the death of a woman in their care in November 2023, according to documents filed last month.

Costa Mesa is set to receive $4.6 million over 15 years as part of the nationwide legal settlements against drug makers and pharmacy chains.

A newly unsealed lawsuit by Tennessee's attorney general says the maker of the world's top-selling painkiller directed its salesforce to target the highest prescribers, many with limited or no pain ...

The Department of Justice is wasting taxpayer dollars and hurting patients by pursuing a lawsuit against pharmacies for allegedly contributing to the opioid crisis, when it should instead be focusing ...

In an odd twist, two of the country’s leading pharmacy companies argued that anything they did wrong should have been obvious ...

(AP) - Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of lawsuits over the harms of opioids, in a new deal formally approved by a ...

Kentucky’s Attorney General on March 8 filed a lawsuit against AmerisourceBergen, alleging the drug distributor engaged in deceptive business practices related to the overdistribution of opioids in ...

Exterior shot of One Stamford Forum in Stamford, Connecticut, which houses the Purdue Pharma headquarters (via Wikimedia Commons) Today, New York Attorney General Letitia James launched a major ...

(AP) — A federal bankruptcy court judge on Tuesday formally approved OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the harms of opioids. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane was ...