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Aug 28

OxyContin maker negotiating settlement worth a reported $12B

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press

Purdue Pharma, the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, is facing billions of dollars in potential liability for its role in the nation's opioid crisis.

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Aug 26

What Oklahoma’s landmark opioid ruling could mean for other states

By Laura Santhanam

Some experts say it could begin the kind of legal dismantling the tobacco industry experienced in the 1990s.

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Aug 26

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What Okla. judgment against Johnson & Johnson means for opioid accountability

An Oklahoma judge delivered a $572 million judgment against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson in the first major legal decision to go against a drugmaker for its role in the opioid crisis. The judge found the company’s marketing practices helped…

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Aug 26

WATCH: Oklahoma judge rules against drugmaker, orders $572M payment

By Sean Murphy, Associated Press

An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid drug crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million to help abate the problem in the coming years.

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Aug 23

Proposed rule could make it easier to share addiction treatment records

By Laura Santhanam

On Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a new rule that would give doctors greater access to records of patients who are being treated for substance use disorder, in an effort to better coordinate care.

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Jul 24

No obligation to the public, opioid distributor tells lawyer

By Megan Hoyer, Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

An executive at one of the nation's largest drug distribution companies said under questioning recently that the business has no obligation to the public when it comes to the amount of prescription opioid painkillers it ships.

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Jul 18

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The opioid industry fought hard to keep this database hidden. Here’s what it shows

Over the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of Americans have died during a national opioid addiction crisis. As the drug manufacturers face a possible legal reckoning from multiple lawsuits, a newly uncovered database sheds more light on the scope…

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Jul 18

How racial inequity is playing out in the opioid crisis

By Jenae Addison

Non-whites make up 20 percent of deaths involving prescription and non-prescription opioids in the U.S. According to recent government data, the number is growing.

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May 16

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How the Met is handling dilemma of donor accountability

Pressure is increasingly being applied to institutions benefiting from philanthropy to be accountable for their funding sources. Lately, the opioid epidemic has highlighted that dilemma: New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art is the latest museum to turn down money…

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May 16

5 states announce new lawsuits over prescription opioids

By Anthony Izaguirre, Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

With the suits, 45 states are now taking legal action against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, asserting that the company downplayed the addiction risks of its powerful prescription drug.

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