Legal evidence is needed to pin addiction and death on opioid manufacturers, but the science suggests that a large and ready supply of legal prescription painkillers led to many addictions.
This is the biggest state opioid settlement yet, and lawyers and addiction patients' advocates are waiting eagerly to see what precedent it will set.
OxyContin's maker contemplates bankruptcy, anti-abortion bills move forward in Georgia and Tennessee, and women will take a walk in space.
In a sealed court document, one of the company's controlling members indicated that Purdue Pharma should not correct misconceptions about the strength of oxycodone.
The maker of the potent painkiller Oxycontin discussed how the sale of opioids and the treatment of opioid addiction were "naturally linked."
Colorado sues an opioid manufacturer, the ACLU says the government suppressed pipeline protests, and India lets go of an outmoded gay sex ban.
Twenty-six other states have already sued the company.
OxyContin, designed for cancer pain relief, became the drug prescribed for back and tooth aches.
How the American opiate epidemic was started by one pharmaceutical company.
