Indien. Beset By Lawsuits And Criticism In U.S., Opioid Makers Eye New Market In India What began in India as a populist movement to bring inexpensive morphine to the diseased and dying poor has paved the way for a booming pain management industr...

USA. Sacklers Would Give Up Ownership of Purdue Pharma Under Settlement Proposal The Sackler family would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma, the company blamed for much of the opioid epidemic, and pay $3 billion of their own money under terms of...

USA. Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572 Million in Landmark Opioid Trial Oklahoma pursued the first case against a drug manufacturer for the national public health disaster, and the ruling may point to what lies ahead in 2,000 more lawsuit...

USA. Purdue Pharma offers $10-12 billion to settle opioid claims The lawsuits allege the company and the Sackler family are responsible for starting and sustaining the opioid crisis. (NBC News, USA, 28.08.2019) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-ne...

USA. Drug makers conspired to worsen the opioid crisis. They have blood on their hands   Johnson & Johnson and others profited from addiction and death – and yet they still don’t think they’ve done anything wrong. (The Guardian, UK,...

US opioid prescribing: the federal government advisers with recent ties to big pharma BMJ2019;366, doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5167 https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5167