Sacklers and Purdue Pharma reach new deal with states over opioids
Family to pay up to €5.4 billion to addiction treatment programmes
Judge overturns $4.5bn opioid-related settlement in Purdue Pharma bankruptcy
Sackler family was to make payment in exchange for protection from lawsuits
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Purdue files bankruptcy plan to resolve opioid lawsuits as Sacklers to give €3.61bn to settlement
Blueprint requires members of billionaire pharmacy family to relinquish control of company
McKinsey’s Kevin Sneader voted out in leadership ballot after string of crises
Senior partners vote every three years on who should lead the firm
McKinsey to pay $537m to settle claims over US opioid epidemic
US states claimed consulting firm had helped fuel the crisis
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to criminal charges
Makers of prescription painkiller OxyContin investgated for role in US opioid crisis
Man caught with a Kinder egg containing illegal drugs is jailed
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Irish-based Mallinckrodt files for bankruptcy protection
Lawsuits in US claim company profited from country’s opioid epidemic
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Bayer reaches agreement in 125,000 US cancer lawsuits
Pharmaceutical giant reportedly agrees deal to end inherited costly legal battle
Opioid executive admits to ‘no morals’ ahead of prison term
Insys founder and executives devised scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe dangerous painkiller
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy
Move comes after weeks of negotiations to try to reach a settlement over potentially extensive legal liabilities
US opioid ruling redraws the lines for Big Pharma
About 400,000 people are thought to have died in US opioid epidemic
Ripple effect from Oklahoma opioid judgment deeply felt
Big decisions for drug firms to make ahead of decisive Ohio trial of almost 2,000 actions
Purdue Pharma offers up to $12 bn to settle opioid claims
Maker of Oxycontin accused of fuelling US opioid epidemic
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay €515m for ‘fuelling opioid epidemic’
Fine substantially less than investors expected, driving up J&J’s shares
Ireland among six countries which have seen big rise in opioid-related deaths
Heroin is the most common illicit opioid, while prescription drugs have caused a widely publicised health crisis in the US
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Fintan O’Toole: The Mexico wall is Trump’s opium for a drug-saturated people
The biggest drug problem in the US is not heroin or crystal meth, but painkillers
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From entering first year to life beyond, four succesful graduates tell their stories of third-level education
Is America’s opioid epidemic coming to Europe?
Policymakers warned of threat after opiate addiction kills more than half a million in US
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