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RHODE ISLAND was awarded a $3.4 million planning grant from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to expand the capacity to treat substance use disorders by Medicaid providers in the state. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

R.I. receives $3.4M federal grant to expand addiction treatment by Medicaid...

Government 09/25/2019

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island was awarded a $3.5 million planning grant to increase the state’s treatment capacity of Medicaid providers for substance use disorder...

Purdue bankruptcy is not closure

Editorial and Op-Ed 09/20/2019

A bankruptcy declaration and large settlement are supposed to bring some degree of closure. Purdue Pharma LP’s bankruptcy filing and $10 billion plan to...

WAS THE BANKRUPTCY filing of Purdue Pharma a way the owners of the company, the Sackler family, could protect their personal fortunes from the effects of the more than 2,000 lawsuits that have been filed against the company and the Sacklers? / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/GEORGE FREY

Did the Sackler family take money out of Purdue Pharma for...

Government 09/20/2019

When Purdue Pharma LP filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 15, it was in no small measure to blunt the effects of the more then...

QUESTIONS ARE GROWING about the value of the proposed settlement between Purdue Pharma and a number of states and cities suing for damages caused by the opioid crisis. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES

Purdue opioid deal may be worth less than drugmaker promised

Health Services 09/18/2019

WILMINGTON, Del. – Purdue Pharma LP’s deal to escape thousands of lawsuits over its role in the U.S. opioid crisis may be provide less than...

CVS is Purdue’s largest listed creditor

Government 09/16/2019

NEW YORK – Purdue Pharma LP told a bankruptcy court it owes almost $100 million to pharmacy-benefit managers, drug distributors and state health departments in...

Purdue Pharma has filed for bankruptcy, hoping to avoid having to deal individually with more than 2,000 lawsuits stemming from the company's role in the opioid crisis. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/GEORGE FREY

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy to wipe out 2,000...

Government 09/16/2019

WILMINGTON, Del. – Purdue Pharma LP filed for bankruptcy with a more than $10 billion plan to settle claims that it fueled the U.S....

PURDUE PHARMA's negotiations with state Attorneys General have reportedly stalled. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/GEORGE FEY

Purdue opioid settlement talks stall over Sacklers’ cash

Health Services 09/09/2019

NEW YORK – Purdue Pharma LP’s settlement talks over the drugmaker’s opioid painkillers have stalled over how much money the family that owns the...

RHODE ISLAND was granted $17.1 million in federal funding to combat the opioid crisis, HHS announced Wednesday. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES

R.I. to receive $17M in federal funds for opioid crisis

Health Services 09/04/2019

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will receive $17.1 million in federal funds to combat the opioid crisis, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...

A FEDERAL JUDGE has decided makers and distributors of opioid painkillers must face lawsuits claiming they banded together to wrongfully push sales of the addictive pills ahead of the first federal trial on the matter expected to take place next month. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/DHIRAJ SINGH

Big pharma ordered to face cities’ opioid-conspiracy claims

Government 09/03/2019

WILMINGTON, Del. – Johnson & Johnson, Cardinal Health Inc. and other makers and distributors of opioid painkillers must face lawsuits claiming they banded together...