In a common narrative of the path to opioid misuse, people become addicted to painkillers after a doctor prescribed them...
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Federal prosecutors unveiled the first criminal charges against pharmaceutical executives for illegally diverting opioids, accusing the former chief executive officer...
A physician ally of Purdue Pharma LP whose views helped drive the explosive growth in the use of addictive pain...
A U.S. prosecutor portrayed Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor and other former executives as greedy and heartless during closing...
Members of the Sackler family behind OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP have asked a judge to toss a lawsuit by...
Vermont filed a lawsuit against two pharmaceutical distributors, accusing them of selling ever-increasing amounts of prescription opioids in the state...
Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor didn’t cut corners when it came to collecting intelligence on opioid sales, using the...
The goal for Insys Therapeutics Inc.’s call center in Phoenix was simple: persuade insurers to authorize at least 70 prescriptions...
The number of U.S. drug overdose deaths has begun to level off after years of relentless increases driven by the...
Surgeons at an Ohio hospital have developed a treatment protocol that they say sends people home after operations without any...