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By Mike Spector and Tom Hals NEW YORK (Reuters) - OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is the unnamed company that surfaced in criminal charging documents filed earlier this week in a probe of illegal kickbacks from drugmakers, according to people familiar with the matter. Purdue Pharma, which faces U.S. Justice…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is the unnamed company that surfaced in criminal charging documents filed earlier this week in a probe of illegal kickbacks from drugmakers, according to people familiar with the matter. FILE PHOTO: Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin pills, made by Purdue Pharma…

Even as the Sackler family tried to reach a settlement on the roughly 2,000 lawsuits that its company, Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, faced last year over its role in the opioid crisis, it appeared to remain very rich. But it may have been forced into some other changes,…

(BOSTON) — The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company was ordered to spend 5 1/2 years in prison Thursday for orchestrating a bribery and kickback scheme prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis. John Kapoor, 76, the former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was sentenced in Boston’s federal court after a…

Los Angeles (AFP) - The rapper Juice WRLD died of an accidental opioid overdose, Chicago's medical examiner said Wednesday, one month after the rising artist suffered a seizure at one of the city's airports. "The manner of death is accident," the Cook County…

Rapper Juice WRLD died due to an accidental drug overdose, the Chicago Cook County medical examiners office announced on Wednesday. The Medical Examiner's Office has determined the cause and manner of death of 21-year-old Jarad A. Higgins. Higgins died as a …

juice wrld David Wolff - Patrick/Redferns Rapper Juice WRLD, whose real name is Jarad Higgins, died from an accidental overdose of oxycodone and codeine, according to an autopsy. The rapper died on December 8 at Chicago's Midway Airport af…

The Cook County Medical Examiners Office has ruled that Juice WRLD died of an accidental overdose of Oxycodone and codeine toxicity. It was previously reported that Juice WRLD, was treated with Narcan (a pharmaceutical used to combat opioid overdoses) and ta…

Juice WRLD died from accidental overdose ... according to the Cook County Medical Examiner. The M.E.'s Office says it found Oxycodone and codeine in his system and determined he died from toxic levels of those drugs. TMZ broke the story ... Juice WRLD died …