Before and after taking an introductory class (in finance, or in psychology and law) college students were asked how knowledgeable they thought they were about various terms within the subject ...

Utah is joining a $7.4 billion national settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family over their alleged role in the U.S. opioid epidemic. The state will receive $57 million to combat the ...

The city of Tacoma will use the nearly $15 million it is set to receive in funds from national legal settlements with pharmaceutical companies over the role they played in the opioid epidemic for ...

Erie Times News Opinion Opioid, fentanyl overdose epidemic takes toll on Pa. construction workers | Opinion Jon O'Brien Wed, June 11, 2025, 2:03 AM PDT 4 min read ...

"You really can't overstate how important (the opioid settlement funds) are to this region, specifically to Pueblo," said Miles Lucero, Pueblo County commissioner and SECOR 19 board member.

Liz Skalka is a reporter based in Maryland. She was previously a senior political reporter at HuffPost and the Ohio politics ...

It isn’t an exaggeration to say Pennsylvania’s opioid and fentanyl epidemic is the public health challenge of our time. Across our commonwealth and America, opioid use disorder continues to be ...

Most of our interviewees agreed that criminalization alone wouldn’t solve the opioid epidemic. “You can’t incarcerate yourself to sobriety,” said a rural law enforcement officer.

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Purdue Pharma’s $7B Opioid Settlement Could Advance Soon After States Back It OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma ’s latest plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids could soon ...

The settlement is a way to avoid trials with claims from states alone that total more than $2 trillion in damages. This month, 49 states announced they had signed on to the proposal. Only Oklahoma ...