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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 469

Purdue Pharma

Fake pill bottles with messages about OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma are displayed during a protest outside the courthouse where the bankruptcy of the company is taking place in White Plains, NY, on Aug. 9, 2021. (AP/Seth Wenig)
June 27, 2024, 7:43 pm
US Supreme Court blocks OxyContin bankruptcy deal that would shield Sacklers
Agreement would have protected family from being sued in relation to opioid pandemic; would have seen it contribute $6 billion to help
By Mark Sherman
(L to R) John Rothman as Mortimer Sackler, Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler, Sam Anderson as Raymond Sackler in episode 3 of 'Painkiller.' (Keri Anderson/Netflix © 2023)
August 10, 2023, 4:46 pm
Netflix’s ‘Painkiller’ is mesmerizing drama about Sackler role in ongoing opioid crisis
Premiering August 10 with a cast led by Matthew Broderick, the six-part series zeroes in on the death and destruction wrought by OxyContin on a community in western Virginia
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An activist sets up cardboard gravestones with the names of victims of opioid overdose outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case was taking place in White Plains, New York, on August 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
July 27, 2022, 9:28 pm
Jewish communities grapple with addiction as fentanyl crisis ravages US
American Jews have not been spared the devastating fallout of opioid abuse, which claimed 107,000 US lives in 2021, though some still struggle with stigmas while seeking help
By Luke Tress
The British Museum. (Wikimedia Commons/Eric Pouhier CC BY-SA)
March 26, 2022, 7:39 pm
British Museum to remove Sackler name from galleries amid opioid scandal
Move follows global outrage over family’s role in crisis
By AP
Illustrative: Protesters stage a die-in and have their shapes traced on the sidewalk outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, New York, August 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
March 4, 2022, 4:16 am
Sacklers to pay $6 billion, lose Purdue Pharma in deal to avoid opioid civil suits
Some criticize settlement, which leaves amount to go to victims of addictive OxyContin unchanged while shielding family from further attempts to make them pay for crisis
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and John Seewer
Illustrative: "Pill Mann" made by Frank Huntley of Worcester, Massachusetts, from his opioid prescription pill bottles, is displayed during a protest by advocates for opioid victims outside the Department of Justice, December 3, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
December 18, 2021, 5:51 am
Uncertainty follows US court’s rejection of Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
Parents who lost children to addiction split on decision to overturn deal that would have prevented future lawsuits against Sackler family: ‘I want them to know what it feels like’
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
A file photo shows offices of Purdue Pharma, maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin (Drew Angerer/ Getty Images North America/AFP)
December 17, 2021, 9:30 am
US judge overturns Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
Court says federal judge did not have authority to prevent all future lawsuits against members of the Sackler family
By AFP
Illustrative: In this photo from August 17, 2018, family and friends who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses leave pill bottles in protest outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, which is owned by the Sackler family, in Stamford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
December 1, 2021, 2:39 am
US states say Sackler family is abusing bankruptcy process in OxyContin case
Group of states urge judge to reject settlement for owners of Purdue Pharma, saying it grants improper protections after family took out more than $10 billion from company
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
In this Aug. 9, 2021, file photo, Jayde Newton helps to set up cardboard gravestones with the names of victims of opioid abuse outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, N.Y. A federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday, Sept. 1, gave conditional approval to a sweeping, potentially $10 billion plan submitted by OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to settle a mountain of lawsuits over its role in the opioid crisis that has killed a half-million Americans over the past two decades. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
September 2, 2021, 2:23 am
Sacklers to pay $4.5 billion, dissolve Purdue Pharma in opioid settlement
Judge gives conditional approval to deal that will shield Sackler family from further payments and civil lawsuits; profits from new company to go to treat addiction
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Fake pill bottles with messages about Purdue Pharma are displayed during a protest outside the courthouse where the bankruptcy of the company is taking place in White Plains, New York, August, 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
August 19, 2021, 12:21 pm
Ex-Purdue Pharma head Richard Sackler denies responsibility for opioid crisis
In court hearing, he says he does not recall telling employees in 1996 that there will be ‘a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition’
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Purdue Pharma offices in Stamford, Connecticut, on May 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, File)
July 28, 2020, 11:07 pm
US judge: Bankrupt Purdue Pharma must halt some political contributions
OxyContin maker has given $185,000 to political groups after declaring bankruptcy last year
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Screen capture from video of Jonathan Sackler, co-owner of Purdue Pharma. (YouTube)
July 6, 2020, 11:14 pm
Jonathan Sackler, co-owner of Purdue Pharma, dies aged 65
Executive and board member of drug company facing multi-billion-dollar lawsuit over opioid crisis succumbs to cancer
By AP
Illustrative: A public health worker demonstrates the use of the overdose-reversal drug Narcan for employees in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 4, 2018. (AP/Matt Rourke/File)
December 15, 2019, 9:26 pm
Pharma empire behind OxyContin now selling overdose cure
International affiliate of Purdue Pharma, widely blamed for US opioid epidemic, marketing new antidote amid cascade of protest and litigation against company
By CLAIRE GALOFARO and Kristen Gelineau
Attorneys Linda Singer and Mark Lanier hug outside the US Federal courthouse, Oct. 21, 2019, in Cleveland (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
October 21, 2019, 4:50 pm
4 drug firms, including Israel’s Teva, reach deal to settle US opioid lawsuit
$260 million agreement comes hours ahead of federal trial over allegations that distributors failed to stop suspicious orders of drugs from being shipped despite warnings of misuse
By AP
In this September 12, 2019, file photo, cars pass Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
October 6, 2019, 7:31 am
Purdue opioid deal blasted as records show $13b. to Sacklers
Many local governments suing pharmaceutical giant over role in opioid crisis say settlement offer doesn’t hold owners accountable for over 400,000 overdose deaths
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
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