An Appeals Court Gave the Sacklers Legal Immunity. Here’s What the Ruling Means.

An Appeals Court Gave the Sacklers Legal Immunity. Here’s What the Ruling Means.

In return for the shield, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma are committed to paying up to $6 billion to help compensate communities and individuals for the ravages of the opioid epidemic.
Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds

Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds

Black patients with opioid use disorder were far less likely to fill prescriptions for the most effective addiction treatments than white patients. But strikingly few patients of all races got the medicine.
National Academies Members Demand Answers About Sacklers’ Donations

National Academies Members Demand Answers About Sacklers’ Donations

The Academies accepted millions of dollars from members of the Sackler family — including some who led Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin — even while advising federal officials on opioid policy.