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Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners have reached a new $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging that the pain medication OxyContin caused a widespread opioid ...
Colorado’s portion would be part of a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with U.S. states and the family for “their central role in creating the opioid crisis,” the attorney general’s ...
Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describe the U.S. opioid epidemic as having arrived in three waves. [8] However, recent research indicates that since 2016, the United States has been experiencing the fourth wave of the opioid epidemic. [22] [23] [24] The epidemic began with the overprescription and abuse of prescription drugs. [25]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The timeline of the opioid epidemic includes selected events related to the origins of Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, the development and marketing of oxycodone, selected FDA activities related to the abuse ...
The opioid epidemic, also referred to as the opioid crisis, is the rapid increase in the overuse, misuse/abuse, and overdose deaths attributed either in part or in whole to the class of drugs called opiates/opioids since the 1990s. It includes the significant medical, social, psychological, demographic and economic consequences of the medical ...
The $7.4 billion will go directly to communities across the U.S. -- including states, counties, cities and territories -- over the next 15 years to support opioid addiction treatment, prevention ...
The last year has seen remarkable progress on the policy front. Lawmakers from both parties are becoming more open to less punitive approaches to the nation’s opioid epidemic, like making sure that drug courts are receptive to medication-assisted treatment. The federal government funded MAT programs and encouraged states to do the same.