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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids but also would have provided billions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic. CBC | World News
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Drug companies reach settlement as opioid trial in Cleveland set to begin
Four drug companies reached a last-minute legal settlement over their role in the opioid addiction epidemic in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. drug company founder charged with bribing doctors to prescribe addictive opioid
The founder of Insys Therapeutics and a group of colleagues are accused of providing kickbacks to doctors to widely prescribe a fentanyl-based spray called Subsys, intended only for cancer patients with intense pain. CBC | World News
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