OxyContin

The money behind these efforts to combat the opioid epidemic and its side effects comes from a perhaps unlikely sponsor: Purdue Pharma, the company that makes the top-selling opioid, OxyContin. After years of aggressively promoting OxyContin as a safe and effective way to combat pain, the company is ...

Protesters threw empty pill bottles and unfurled banners at a New York City art exhibit to protest a donor group's role in the opioid crisis, The New York Times reported. The action took place Saturday afternoon inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Sackler Wing, which was named in honor of Arthur, ...

Anti-opioid activists unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles on Saturday inside the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is named for a family connected to the powerful painkilling drug OxyContin. The protest, which was organized by a group started by the celebrated ...

One of the heirs of Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin, has just purchased a stylish 1980s estate in Bel Air for $22.5 million. TMZ reports David Sackler, the grandson of one of the founders of Purdue, paid entirely in cash for the nearly 10,000-square-foot estate on about four acres. The gated estate ...

Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies responding to a report of an unconscious man on Thursday night in Isla Vista discovered nine people, including several UCSB students, who had apparently overdosed on Oxycontin. At 10:05 p.m., the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to the 6500 ...

Much later, following surgery for a broken arm after a snowboarding accident, Balzary was prescribed OxyContin. “I was high as hell when I took those things,” he writes. “It not only quelled my physical pain, but all my emotions as well. I only took one a day, but I was not present for my kids, my creative spirit ...

Matt Bevin seeking to recover legal fees from a law firm over a settlement with drug manufacturer Purdue Pharma over marketing of the addictive narcotic drug OxyContin. Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate on Monday dismissed efforts by Bevin's Finance Secretary, William Landrum, to recover $4.2 ...

After a 20-year run, is the prescription opioid OxyContin on the way out? The pharmaceutical company behind the commonly used opioid says it will stop marketing the drug to doctors in the United States. In a statement last week, Purdue Pharmaceuticals announced, “We have restructured and significantly ...

After years of aggressively promoting OxyContin as a safe and effective way to combat pain, the company is—equally aggressively—recasting itself as a fundamental player in the response to a crisis that many experts say it helped to create. Such efforts come amid hundreds of lawsuits claiming that Purdue ...