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The pending settlement likely means Purdue will avoid going to trial in the sprawling and complicated case involving some 2,300 local governments across 23 states.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a tentative deal Wednesday with about half the states and thousands of local governments over its role in the…

An attorney for the company that makes the prescription opioid painkiller OxyContin says there is an opioid crisis.

Florida’s largest health insurance company will stop covering OxyContin, the brand name for prescription opioid, beginning Jan. 1, Miami Herald reported.

This week South Carolina decided to sue the maker OxyContin for deceptive marketing.