More than one in five people prescribed extended-release painkillers such as OxyContin developed an addiction within a year, ...

US Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi becomes the third major Democratic candidate in Illinois seeking to succeed retiring US Sen. Dick ...

Projected on two large screens in front of a hotel conference room full of more than 300 people on Wednesday, a video told ...

Trustees announced a partnership with Boardman trustees Thursday for the Clarence R. Smith Mahoning Valley First Responders Wellness Center. It was a commitment that Poland Township police Chief Greg ...

The Justice Department argued that shielding the… OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma ... Sackler family who own the company to avoid civil lawsuits over the opioid crisis, a court has ruled.

When the opioid market was thrown open to millions of chronic pain patients in the 1990s and early 2000s, Purdue Pharma’s ...

Former Mount Vernon resident and music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs is awaiting a second trial May 5 on multiple counts of sex ...

An Iowa nurse who was allowed to keep her license under an agreement approved by the Iowa Board of Nursing last month is now ...

as well as oxycodone-based products Percocet and Endocet. Endo's slide into bankruptcy follows in the footsteps of Purdue Pharma – which filed in 2019 but is still negotiating opioid settlement ...

Court records show that on April 24, two weeks after the board approved that settlement agreement ... the narcotic painkillers fentanyl, oxycodone and Dilaudid to multiple patients but instead ...