KHN — Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain. “A…
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Teva Reaches Tentative $4.25 Billion Settlement Over Opioids
Teva Pharmaceuticals, one of the country’s biggest manufacturers of generic opioids, announced a settlement in principle with some 2,500 local governments, states and tribes over the company’s role in the…
Drug Distributors Cleared of Blame for Opioids Crisis in W. Va. County
A federal judge has ruled that the nation’s three largest drug distributors cannot be held liable for the opioid epidemic in one of the most ravaged counties in the country…
Sacklers and Purdue Reach Settlement as Opioids Crisis Continues
After hundreds of hours of negotiations mediated by Judge Shelley Chapman of federal bankruptcy court, the Sacklers also agreed to a series of other new terms. In addition to the…