The Sacklers’ settlement includes a release that can shield them and others like them from legal consequences. The ramifications are huge.

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The U.S. has treatments to help people dealing with opioid addictions but throws up hurdles to access.

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Since their company, Purdue Pharma, released OxyContin in 1996, almost half a million Americans have died from opioid overdoses.

Alaska’s health clinics were founded to help indigenous people like my family. Thanks to the FDA and Big Pharma, the clinics unwittingly enabled a crisis instead.

Meet the first—and only—corporate executive to be charged in the opioid crisis.