Sacklers Paid Themselves More after Purdue Pharma Fined For Painkiller Marketing
The family received $4.1 billion in cash between 2008 and 2017 after the company was fined for misleading the public about OxyContin’s...
Judge Backs Knox News' Bid to Unseal Latest Big Pharma Opioid Lawsuit
A Knox County judge refused a bid on Friday for secrecy by a pharmacy supplier accused in a lawsuit of conspiring with Big Pharma to...
Court Labels Big Pharma ‘Dealers’
In the first ruling of its kind in Tennessee, an appellate court says opioid makers who act like drug dealers can be treated like ones....
Some Providers Named in State’s Opana Suit Are Still Practicing
Between 2007-2014, Knoxville providers prescribed 916,513 more Opana Extended Release tablets than in all of New York City, Los Angeles...
Lawsuit: Red Flags Were Ignored
Sales reps pushing painkiller Opana looked other way amid signs of fraud and drug dealing, AG says The line at Dr. Abdelrahman Mohamed’s...
Opioid Maker Sold Safety, Dealt Death and Addiction, Tennessee Lawsuit Says
As Tennessee's opioid-addiction rate skyrocketed, Endo Pharmaceuticals executives cheered their rising sales figures. Endo, the maker of...
Opioid Maker Agrees to Pay $225M to Settle Federal Probes
WASHINGTON (AP) — An opioid manufacturer has agreed to pay $225 million to resolve federal investigations into allegations that it paid...
Paper Seeks to Unseal Lawsuit
Motion: Make records public in opioid case Tennesseans deserve to know the details on who’s to blame for the opioid epidemic that’s left...
Opioid Crisis: Tenn. Sues Another Pill Maker
Tennessee’s attorney general sued another painkiller producer Tuesday as an “unconscionable” accomplice to the state’s epidemic of opioid...
Tennessee AG Sues Endo Pharmaceuticals for Contributing to Opioid Crisis
Tennessee's Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against drug company Endo Pharmaceuticals for its contribution to the opioid epidemic....