The United States Supreme Court is set to hear a challenge to Purdue Pharma’s $6 billion opioids settlement, on Monday (Dec 4) which would immunise the company’s billionaire Sackler family owners from future lawsuits brought by opioid victims.

Explained | US Supreme Court to hear challenge to Purdue’s $6bn deal. Will it affect opioid epidemic relief?

The United States Supreme Court, on Thursday (August 10) temporarily blocked a bankruptcy deal for Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the billionaire Sackler family from lawsuits over their role in the country’s opioid epidemic.

US Supreme Court halts Purdue’s $6 billion opioid settlement pending review

The University of Oxford has decided to remove the Sackler name from its buildings and staff posts following an investigation of its relations with the Sackler family.

University of Oxford cuts ties with Sackler family, removes name from buildings, staff posts

On Tuesday, United States’ retail giant Walmart offered to pay $3.1 billion to settle the lawsuits against the company for the damage caused by prescription opioids sold at its pharmacies.

US: Walmart proposes to pay $3.1 billion legal settlement for opioid lawsuits

Four manufacturers of prescription opioids won the pharmaceutical industry’s first major legal victory in the opioid crisis, turning aside claims by local California governments that they contributed substantially to the epidemic.

Opioid makers win major victory in California trial

Four pharmaceutical companies accused of fueling the United States' opioid epidemic would pay up to $26 billion to resolve thousands of claims in federal and state courts. The proposed settlement is the largest unveiled in the multi-year legal effort to hold the industry accountable for the opioids crisis, which has caused more than 500,000 deaths in the US in the last 20 years.

Four drug firms agree to pay $26bn in proposed US opioid settlement

Leading United States pharmaceutical companies go on trial Monday charged with stoking the opioid epidemic that has ravaged communities and left hundreds of thousands dead or overdosed across the country.

Trial set to open in massive United States opioid lawsuit

A senior White House official on Thursday said that he believed China was "absolutely committed" to cooperating with the United States to curb illicit fentanyl, a drug which has played a major role in the US opioid crisis.

China committed to curbing fentanyl circulation: US official Jim Carroll

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and its owners, the Sackler family, are in discussion to settle more than 2,000 opioid lawsuits against the company for $10 billion to $12 billion, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

Purdue Pharma in discussion on $10-12 billion offer to settle opioid lawsuits: Sources

An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered US health care giant Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million in damages for its role in fostering the state's opioid addiction crisis.

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572 million for opioid addiction crisis

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