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New York: McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay more than $550 million to settle claims by US states that the consulting company helped fuel the opioid epidemic by providing marketing advice to drugmakers including Purdue Pharma LP and Johnson & Johnson, people familiar with the accord said. New York-based…

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McKinsey has agreed to pay $573 million to settle investigations into its role in the opioid crisis. The firm has been accused of boosting drug sales during the epidemic, but it won't admit wrongdoing. At least 450,000 Americans have died of an opioid overdose since 1999. Visit the Business section…

October, 2017, was a pretty good month for my family. I got nominated for a big award and became a staff writer at The New Yorker. My oldest son had recently started college, and I felt even more than the normal amount of parental pride and wonder at watching him…

Sign up for the Guardian Today US newsletter Two of a group of billionaire Sackler family members that own Purdue Pharma, the US pharmaceutical manufacturer of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, refused to apologize for their role in the opioids crisis that has killed almost half a million Americans, during a…

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - More than 500 people have signed a petition calling for the removal of a stone marker at a Connecticut park that bears the name of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, citing the company’s role in the opioid crisis. The rectangular marker is set in the ground at…

Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty Tuesday to three criminal charges, formally admitting its role in the opioid epidemic that has contributed to hundreds of thousands of deaths over the past two decades.In a virtual hearing with a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, the OxyContin maker admitted impeding the United States…

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