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  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Publicis to pay $350mn to settle US opioid crisis case

    Agreement with French group is the first prosecutors have made with an advertising agency over its alleged role

    Addicts on a US street
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    US-China relations
    US and Chinese officials to discuss crackdown on fentanyl precursors

    Beijing meeting aims to advance agreements between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping during summit last year

    Capsules with methamphetamine being prepared in a safe house in Mexico
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Purdue Pharma LP
    US Supreme Court grapples with Sackler liability releases in Purdue bankruptcy

    Members of the company’s founding family fight to uphold protections from $6bn opioid bankruptcy settlement in closely watched case

    A pharmacist holds a bottle of OxyContin
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
    US-China relations
    China and US to agree crackdown on fentanyl trade

    Plan to curb supply of opioid’s precursor chemicals comes ahead of summit between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping

    A display of fentanyl and methemphetamine seized by Customs and Border Protection officers at the Nogales Port of Entry in Arizona
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    Visual story
    The global network behind the fentanyl crisis

    The illicit trade routes responsible for the worst overdose crisis in US history

  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    A toxic mix: opioid victims’ $1bn hit from repeat pharma bankruptcy

    Hedge funds seize control of Mallinckrodt in latest case exposing flaws of US mass tort playbook

    People protest in front of the White House to raise awareness of opioid-related deaths
  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    US takes aim at fentanyl with sanctions on China-based network

    Treasury’s move comes as Washington tries to combat flow of deadly opioid

    Plastic bags of fentanyl
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    McKinsey
    McKinsey pays out another $230mn to settle opioid cases

    Consultancy admits no wrongdoing as it resolves claims from municipalities and school districts

    OxyContin pills
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    Tactics are shifting in the war on drugs

    Experimentation continues on measures to tackle addiction and fatal overdoses

    A box containing naloxone overdose emergency kits outside a store at Canal Park in Pennsylvania
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    Lex
    Mallinckrodt: legal rejig may slash $1.1bn from opioid victims’ trust Premium content

    Drug producer’s prospects are poor enough that its reset enterprise value is just $3bn

    Homeless people are seen on streets of  Kensington, Philadelphia
  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    ReviewTelevision
    Painkiller is a surprisingly watchable drama about the opioid crisis

    The new six-part Netflix series is a comprehensive and pacy examination of mass greed and its consequences

    A man with grey hair and a grey suit stands outside a grand building in front of a microphone as it snows, two men in black suits flanking him.
  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Purdue Pharma LP
    Supreme Court halts $6bn Purdue opioid settlement in blow to Sacklers

    Justices will consider whether the law permits the waiver of future claims against parties not in bankruptcy

    A pharmacist holds a bottle of OxyContin
  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    Inside BusinessSujeet Indap
    Opioid victims fear the pain of junior creditor status at Mallinckrodt

    Payouts at risk of falling below other creditors in any repeat bankruptcy

    30mg pills of the painkiller Oxycodone Hydrochloride
  • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
    News in-depth
    ‘People rot from the inside out’: lethal xylazine deepens the US drug crisis

    Cartels are cutting fentanyl with the cheap sedative, driving a surge in overdoses in cities such as Philadelphia

    A nurse practitioner treats wounds on a patient
  • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
    Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits

    Appeals court says some liability releases are ‘appropriate’ under US bankruptcy law

    A bottle of OxyContin made by Purdue Pharma
  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    Cryptofinance
    Crypto’s dark role in the US opioid epidemic

    Plus, losses to crypto fraud rises and update on Do Kwon

    An image of a fentanyl syringe
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    FT Magazine
    What if San Francisco never pulls out of its ‘doom loop’?

    A crisis of homelessness, drug abuse and sensationalised crime threaten the city’s future

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    University of Oxford
    Oxford university drops Sackler name from buildings after investigation

    Decision comes at end of review instigated by new vice-chancellor Irene Tracey

    A view of the Radcliffe Camera building, part of the Bodleian Library, in Oxford
  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Mexico
    Mexico’s president seeks help from China’s Xi on deadly fentanyl imports

    Plea from Andrés Manuel López Obrador follows pressure from US lawmakers over trafficking of drug across border

    Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks to media
  • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
    News in-depthMexico
    US turns up heat on Mexico after cartel kidnappings

    Deaths of US citizens and steeply rising fentanyl casualties prompt rising frustration in Washington

    State police keep watch at the scene where authorities found the bodies of two of four Americans kidnapped by gunmen, in Matamoros, Mexico
  • Monday, 20 February, 2023
    News in-depthFT Investigations
    Oxford university stuck with Sacklers as opioid deaths led others to cut ties

    Documents show privileged access to the Boat Race and continued acceptance of donations

    Dame Theresa Sackler
  • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
    US warns overdose crisis will spread overseas without action from China

    White House drugs tsar says Beijing needs to tighten rules on supply of raw materials to make fentanyl

    Evidence seized after a traffic stop led officers to major methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking operation in California
  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    The Oscars 2023: all you need to know
    Laura Poitras on Nan Goldin and their film taking on the opioid crisis

    The director discusses the fight to expose the Sackler family’s ‘artwashing’ of a fortune built on addictive drugs

    A photo-portrait of Laura Poitras
  • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
    AmerisourceBergen slapped with federal lawsuit over opioids crisis

    Drug distributor knew pills were likely being sold in parking lots for cash, allege prosecutors

    A logo sign outside of a facility occupied by  AmerisourceBergen in Corona, California
  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    Walmart Inc
    Walmart lifts guidance as richer consumers go bargain hunting

    Retailer upgrades outlook even as $3.1bn opioids settlement results in quarterly net loss

    Walmart signage outside a store
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