The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller oxycontin, have reached a $7.4 billion settlement with a bipartisan coalition of 15 states for fueling the opioid crisis, ...

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North Star Child Advocacy has announced its selection as a recipient of the West Virginia First Foundation’s inaugural ...

“This historic settlement not only holds the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma accountable for their role in the opioid crisis but also ensures that communities across Virginia and the nation ...

It will also make public more than 30 million documents related to the Sacklers’ and Purdue’s opioid business. Other states involved in the settlement ... Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

The new settlement does not have that protection. Although opioid addiction is a problem nationwide, Virginia has played a significant role in the lawsuits against Purdue and McKinsey & Co., which ...

The settlement was agreed to by Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family members who own the company and lawyers representing state and local governments and thousands of victims of the opioid crisis.

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

(WRIC) — In a $7.4 billion multistate settlement with members of the Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma, Inc. for their role in creating and perpetuating the opioid crisis, Virginia ...

The West Virginia First Foundation has begun to distribute approximately $1 billion in opioid settlement money. Small streams and creeks in southern coalfields added to flood warnings for rivers.

This is the largest opioid crisis settlement to date and effectively ... Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. A "significant amount" of the money will be distributed during the first ...