A major push to hold the Sackler family legally accountable for their role in the opioid crisis essentially ended today when a U.S. Bankruptcy Court ruled that the family’s company, Purdue Pharma, creators of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, would be dissolved and the family owners would pay $4.5 billion to …
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Customs and Border Protection agents discovered 254 pounds of fentanyl in a truck this weekend, NBC reports. It was the largest seizure of the synthetic opioid, which has caused countless overdose deaths, in U.S. history. The bust took place Saturday when a tractor-trailer was stopped trying to enter the U.S. …
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Robbie Pawelek was four years clean from alcohol and suboxone when he began spiraling in Chicago. He stopped working his recovery programs. Prescription medication helped ease his anxiety and depression, but he felt more angry and irritated than ever. Then two years ago, he moved to Austin, where friends told …
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