Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll ...

A Williamsburg-based recovery advocate said she hopes the money will help local families and communities impacted by the crisis.

Last week’s settlement that would see Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, pay $7.4 billion to resolve lawsuits filed by state and local governments across the country is ...

U.S. officials have approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated ...

Under the new proposal, like the previous one, members of the Sackler family would also give up ownership of Purdue ... family from civil lawsuits over OxyContin — even though the family ...

A new painkiller that is said to be free of addiction risks may be transformative for treatment of acute pain, according to local medical professionals. "I think it could be a potentially ...

Rockville Centre became the first diocese in New York with a confirmed reorganization plan, providing a potential blueprint ...

Twenty-five years ago, the bestseller “The Tipping Point” turned Malcolm Gladwell into a household name. Describing “the critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point,” Gladwell illustrates ...