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OxyContin

Inside the Legal Thicket Ensnaring Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers

By Helen Holmes

The Sackler Family Won’t Receive Bankruptcy Protections, New York Judge Rules

By Helen Holmes

The Met Is Finally Removing the Sackler Name from Seven Exhibition Spaces

By Helen Holmes

Critics Rage as Purdue Pharma Settlement Won’t Send Sacklers to Jail

By Sissi Cao

Nan Goldin Demands Punishment for Sacklers as Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty

By Helen Holmes

The Louvre Removes Sackler Name From Walls, but Won’t Say It’s Because of Protests

By Helen Holmes

Sackler Family Forced to Halt Donations After 3 Museums Rejected Its Opioid Money

By Sissi Cao
The prescription medicine OxyContin is displayed August 21, 2001 at a Walgreens drugstore in Brookline, MA.

Are Lawsuits the Solution to the Opioid Epidemic?

By Donald Scarinci
NORWICH, CT - MARCH 23: Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain lie on display on March 23, 2016 in Norwich, CT. On March 15, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), announced guidelines for doctors to reduce the amount of opioid painkillers prescribed, in an effort to curb the epidemic. The CDC estimates that most new heroin addicts first became hooked on prescription pain medication before graduating to heroin, which is stronger and cheaper.

NYC Mayor Says ‘Corporate Greed’ Is to Blame for Opioid Epidemic

By Will Bredderman
Fat Mike performing with NOFX.

NOFX Fight America’s Most Dangerous Drug Dealers—Big Pharma

By Mischa Pearlman
NORWICH, CT - MARCH 23: Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain lie on display on March 23, 2016 in Norwich, CT. On March 15, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), announced guidelines for doctors to reduce the amount of opioid painkillers prescribed, in an effort to curb the epidemic. The CDC estimates that most new heroin addicts first became hooked on prescription pain medication before graduating to heroin, which is stronger and cheaper.

Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler Slanders Pain Patients

By Lindsay Beyerstein
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