The deal comes after the Supreme Court blocked a controversial bankruptcy plan for Purdue that shielded Sackler family members from future lawsuits.

While it's next to impossible to know how many opioids entered the state illegally in 2023, we do know that just under 1.7 ...

Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “These practices allowed millions of opioid pills and other controlled substances to flow illegally out of Walgreens stores.” ...

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The Justice Department on Friday accused Walgreens of fueling the opioid epidemic that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people by filling millions of unlawful prescriptions ...

Chelan County commissioners awarded more than $500,000 of grant dollars from a first round of opioid settlement funding to ...

Attempting to reduce fatal opioid overdoses and encourage more ... else and deal with their underlying issues.” The Washington state Department of Health launched its buprenorphine pilot program ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Chronic pain affects hundreds of millions of people around the world. But the opioid crisis in North America led many health care providers to realize they relied too heavily on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and ...