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Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit US streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records showDEA agents in New Mexico allegedly allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills onto streets between 2023-2025, prioritizing larger case...- After cyberattacks, is China flooding America with drugs? US Treasury sanctions Guangzhou Tengyue and executives for Synthetic Opioid shipmentsUS authorities have sanctioned Guangzhou Tengyue Chemical Co. and its executives for allegedly supplying synthetic opioids to the United St...
- Consulting firm McKinsey to pay $650 million to resolve US criminal opioid probeMcKinsey & Co. agreed to a $650 million settlement with the DOJ, resolving a criminal investigation into their role in advising Purdue Phar...
- McKinsey faces US criminal probe over opioids work, sources sayThe probe is focused on whether McKinsey engaged in a criminal conspiracy when advising Purdue and other pharmaceutical manufacturers on ma...
- Supreme Court weighs landmark Purdue Pharma settlement impacting opioid crisisThe Supreme Court weighs a pivotal Purdue Pharma settlement shielding the Sackler family from opioid crisis lawsuits. The $6 billion agreem...
- McKinsey to pay $230 mn in latest US opioid settlementConsulting firm McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $230 million in its latest settlement to resolve lawsuits alleging it fueled a US opioid ep...
- CVS, Walmart, Walgreens agree to $13.8-B US opioid settlementCVS said Wednesday it had agreed to pay about $5 billion over 10 years, and Walgreens disclosed in a filing with the US Securities and Exch...
- What's next for Purdue Pharma after $6 billion opioid settlement?The deal replaces a previous $4.3 billion agreement, which was upended on appeal after nine attorneys general argued that the Sacklers shou...
- US pharma groups advance $25 billion opioid settlementThe three distributors, McKessen, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health, each "independently determined" that enough states and litigating ...
- Author Patrick Radden Keefe's book about billionaire Sackler clan wins $67K UK prize'Empire of Pain' traces the rise of the family's fortunes and its downfall in a web of lawsuits.
- $26 billion opioid settlement ready for next step: US drug firmsThe opioid crisis -- exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic -- has killed more than half a million people in the United States.
- Johnson & Johnson settles New York opioid suits for $263 million before trialThe settlement resolves complaints brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James and two Long Island counties that are set to go...
- McKinsey & Co to pay $550m over role in opioid crisisMcKinsey suggested ways to “turbocharge” sales of Purdue’s OxyContin painkiller at a time when the legal market for the opioid-based medici...
- America's Justice Department sues Walmart, alleges its pharmacies helped fuel opioid crisisWalmart's actions helped "fuel a national crisis," said Jeffrey Bossert Clark, the acting head of the Justice Department's civil division, ...
- Purdue Pharma to plead guilty and pay $8.3 billion over opioidsThe settlement is likely to boost Purdue's effort to move past claims it helped spark a public-health crisis over opioids with its marketin...
- Pain relief caused by coronavirus may help explain COVID-19 spread, say scientistsAccording to the scientists, including Rajesh Khanna from the University of Arizona in the US, nearly half of COVID-19 transmission occurs ...
- Cognizant, HCL Tech may feel the pain of US opioid lawsuitsIT services firms face hurdles due to possible client bankruptcies or cut in spending to pay settlements.
- Aurobindo eyes Mallinckrodt Opioids AgainThe US President has declared opioid addiction a public health emergency and drugmakers find themselves under scrutiny for allegedly contri...
- Indian-American billionaire charged with leading pharmaceutical fraud scheme in USJohn Nath Kapoor, 74, was arrested by the FBI from his home in Arizona yesterday on charges including racketeering, conspiracy and fraud.
- Donald Trump nominates Jerome Adams in place of Vivek Murthy as US Surgeon GeneralThe White House said that Trump nominated Indiana's health commissioner Adamsto, a needle exchange advocate who helped lead the state's bat...
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