T he Sackler family and Purdue Pharma have agreed to pay $7.4 billion to resolve nationwide opioid litigation, marking a major milestone in efforts to hold the makers of the addictive pain ...

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced Thursday, Jan. 23, that a bipartisan coalition of states and other parties have reached a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with members of th ...

The Justice Department argued that shielding the… OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma can start its transformation under a bankruptcy agreement that allows the members of the wealthy Sackler family ...

Never before made public documents unveil the close relationship between Purdue Pharma’s Sackler family and gubernatorial ...

Purdue Pharma asked a bankruptcy judge late ... a deal that would have members of the Sackler family who own the company pay up to $7 billion. The filing is a milestone in a tumultuous legal ...

An ongoing investigation by GoLocal starting in 2017 into the opioid crisis and the devastating effect it has had on Rhode ...

"Purdue Pharma is the reason the Sackler family are billionaires, and after today's settlement they will remain billionaires," said the group's research director Rick Claypool.

Sara Randazzo is a reporter covering higher education nationally as part of The Wall Street Journal's education team. She has also focused on K-12 education. Earlier in her career, Sara spent more ...