Oxycodone

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The maker of OxyContin was dissolved as part of the bankruptcy settlement (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Purdue Pharma was dissolved on Wednesday in a bankruptcy settlement that will require the Sackler family to pay billions of dollars in the country’s fight against the opioid crisis. The settlement comes with…

A federal bankruptcy judge gave conditional approval Wednesday to a sweeping settlement that will remove the Sackler family from ownership of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and devote potentially $10 billion to fighting the opioid crisis that has killed a half-million Americans over the past two decades. If it withstands appeals,…

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A New York judge on Wednesday approved a bankruptcy settlement that pays victims across the country but shields the Sackler family, which owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, from future lawsuits over the opioid crisis. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain signed off on the plan which grants the family legal protection…

The family that owns Purdue Pharma had hoped a reformulated version of OxyContin would help rein in the burgeoning opioid crisis a decade ago, a member of the Sackler family said Thursday in court testimony that once again stopped short of an apology or acceptance of responsibility for the epidemic.…

The former president and board chair of Purdue Pharma told a court Wednesday that he, his family and the company are not responsible for the opioid crisis in the United States. Richard Sackler, a member of the family who owns the company, was asked whether each bears responsibility during a…

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