A unit of French advertising company Publicis Groupe SA on Friday lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by Massachusetts’...
opioid epidemic News

Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported...
A landmark trial targeting multiple opioid manufacturers and distributors opened Tuesday with lawyers for the government accusing the companies of...
A retired high-ranking official with the Drug Enforcement Administration has testified that three large opioid distributors had a “systematic failure”...
Massachusetts’ top prosecutor on Thursday sued a global marketing company that she alleges played a role in fueling the opioid...

Members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma LP have offered roughly $4.3 billion to resolve sprawling opioid litigation,...
Construction workers are more likely to use drugs than workers in other professions, finds a study by the Center for...

Imagine you’re the chief executive officer of a large pharmaceutical corporation with an important drug that’s under attack. More than...

The opioid epidemic cost the U.S. economy at least $631 billion from 2015 to 2018, according to a Society of...

The public cost of coping with the opioid crisis in the U.S. “dwarfs” the combined resources of the companies sued...