On Monday, the Supreme Court will take on one of its highest-profile bankruptcy cases in recent memory: Whether or not to approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma's controversial agreement that would ...

Tufts University last month announced it would cut ties to the Sackler family — the owners of Purdue Pharma, which makes the opioid pain medicine OxyContin — and began removing the Sackler name from a ...

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 ...

Arthur and his brothers Mortimer and Raymond Sackler bought a small company called Purdue Frederick in 1952 and grew it into a pharmaceutical giant. Arthur’s family sold his stake in the company after ...

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Attorneys general representing nearly half the states and lawyers for more than 500 local governments on Friday blasted the terms of Purdue Pharma's offer to settle thousands of lawsuits over the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday blew up the massive bankruptcy reorganization of opioid maker Purdue Pharma, finding that the settlement inappropriately included legal protections for the Sackler family ...

Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company infamous for fueling the opioid overdose crisis in the U.S., has been erased from history. On the 14th, the New York Times (NYT) reported that a U.S. court ...

The family behind OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma on Wednesday scored a major legal victory that will shield it from future liability over the country’s opioid crisis. Members of the Sackler family were ...