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Six posters bearing the first names of the 11,169 people in Massachusetts who died of opioid overdoses from 2008 to 2017 are displayed in Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office as she announces a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. KATIE LAnNAN STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE The court document scrolls on the screen like an eternal list of sorrow. The plaintiffs include Flint, Mich., the Navajo Nation, Nantucket, the cities of Holyoke, Fall River and Northampton, Her Majesty The Queen I...

BBC News Published image copyrightReuters image captionAn estimated 450,000 people are estimated to have died from opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2018 McKinsey has agreed to pay $573m (£419m) to resolve claims it faced across the US related to its role fuelling Americas opioid epidemic. The consulting firm was under investigation for its work with Purdue Pharma, which aimed to boost sales of the addictive Oxycontin painkiller. McKinsey maintained that its past work was "lawful" and denied w...

Break into nights, the family that owns oxycontin maker purdue farmer used swiss banks accounts to conceal the transfer of millions of dollars from the company to themselves. thats according to the chief general, documenting a billion dollars in transfers between the sackler family, thanks, shell companies and advisors. there are growing concerns tonight about a possible strike against general motors. as contracts to the united auto workers, and on the makers are about to expire. if the agreemen...

States and some 2000 local governments have agreed to a tentative settlement with oxycontin maker purdue farmer over the toll of the nations opioid crisis lawyers representing the plaintive along with $26.00 states and u.s. territories were on board with an offer from the company to settle for up to $12000000000.00 however with over a dozen states unhappy with the proposed deal it could still fall through prescription opioids have killed more than 20800000 americans since the late 1990 s. . how ...

Americas deadly opioid crisis. >> the evidence will show, your honor, commencing with these witnesses despite what our society thinks will teach you through the witnesses that this is not bad people doing bad things, this is not a failure of will power, this is not poor decisions by weak or stupid people, this is a drug that is so powerful that it takes over the brain. >> all right. johnson & johnson argues it acted responsibly in marketing and promotion of its products, points out its medicines...