Friday marked six years since passage of New York's Child Victims Act (CVA) − a landmark law empowering survivors of childhood sexual abuse to seek justice after years of silence.

Purdue sought bankruptcy protection in 2019 as it faced thousands of lawsuits over the opioid crisis. Among the claims are that the company targeted doctors with a message that the addiction risk ...

If the attention generated by BioSpace’s coverage of this landmark approval is any indication, Americans are hungry for ...

Barely four weeks into their new terms, members of the West Virginia Board of Public Works are looking at ways to make ...

Barely four weeks into their new terms, members of the West Virginia Board of Public Works are looking at ways to make improvements to their departments and work with the Legislature as the 2025 ...

The recent settlement that would see Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, pay $7.4 billion to resolve lawsuits filed by state and local governments across the country is ...

Purdue Pharma and its controlling Sackler family have offered a new settlement to resolve lawsuits over their involvement in the opioid epidemic, raising the payout from the Sacklers to $6 billion.

Dan Bregger was a son, brother, and best friend, and when he started taking kratom as a “natural” and “safe” way to tackle his anxiety, I never imagined it would be the thing to take his ...

So we're three and a half years in here at Burke,” Brian Epley said. “We haven't really programmatically started or done a lot.” ...

Purdue Pharma is preparing to make a $10 to $12 billion offer to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits in the US that accuse it of contributing to the opioid crisis, says an NBC report. The manufacturer ...

The money will pay for efforts to prevent and treat opioid addiction, or fund services that help people in recovery.