Drug and Substance Abuse

The first batch of pot crops in New York could potentially be in danger due to a court fight over marijuana dispensary licenses. The fight is expected to hurt small farms.

New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella announced that the state reached a $40.5 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson over opioid claims on Thursday.

West Virginia reached a $400 million settlement on Monday with opioid distributors AmerisourceBergen Drug Co., Cardinal Health Inc., and McKesson Corp.

Allergan and Teva, two popular opioid distributers, have agreed to pay $54 million in cash and overdose reversal drugs to settle a federal lawsuit.

A federal judge ruled on Monday that three major U.S. drug distributors are not responsible for fueling an opioid epidemic in a part of West Virginia.

Walgreens has settled with the state of Florida in a lawsuit concerning the opioid epidemic, in which it has agreed to pay $683 million to help fight against opioid addiction and abuse.

The percentage of working Americans testing positive for drugs hit a two-decade high last year, driven by an increase in positive marijuana tests, as businesses might have loosened screening policies amid nationwide labor shortages.

Families faced the owners of Purdue Pharma in court and told heart-wrenching stories of addiction and death.

Members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma LP and grew wealthy from sales of OxyContin agreed to pay up to $6 billion to settle lawsuits accusing them of helping fuel the opioid-addiction epidemic, earning the unanimous support of state attorneys general to resolve the family’s liability and end the drugmaker’s bankruptcy case.

A U.S. judge on Friday allowed Purdue Pharma to immediately challenge her rejection of legal protections for Sackler family members who own the OxyContin maker, and which were a major component of its bankruptcy reorganization plan.

Regional pharmacy chain operator Giant Eagle Inc on Friday said it had agreed to settle lawsuits accusing it of fueling the opioid epidemic in several Ohio communities,

Rhode Island plans to create supervised spaces for users to inject illegal drugs, in a big test of the idea that reducing harm to drug users is more effective than criminalization.

Objections to a historic settlement with Purdue Pharma are mounting in the form of appeals, with Rhode Island's attorney general saying Wednesday the plan doesn't hold the OxyContin maker or its owners accountable for its role in sparking the opioid crisis.

Among the families who lost children and other loved ones in the nation's opioid crisis, many had held out hope of someday facing OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners in a courtroom.

A federal bankruptcy judge has signed off on OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's plan to settle billions in lawsuits over the opioid crisis.

A member of the Sackler family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma says the billionaires will not agree to a settlement unless it includes liability protections for the heirs against waves of lawsuits over the opioid crisis.

The parents of a 16-year-old boy who died from a fentanyl overdose have started a petition calling on social media apps like TikTok and Snapchat to change their policies.

A recent lawsuit over THC-laced edibles and packaging raises the question whether cannabis companies are aiming to draw in adolescents as a possible market.