Mandy Gooden grew up in a town that had one of the largest addiction rates in the country, with over five times the OxyContin distribution per capita than the national average in 2000. After ...

WASHINGTON — Victims of opioid addiction weren't in the room when OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma persuaded half the state attorneys general to settle claims over the company's role in the nationwide ...

Two of the owners of the company that makes OxyContin acknowledged to a congressional committee on Thursday that the powerful prescription painkiller has played a role in the national opioid crisis ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The makers of Oxycontin have agreed to a $7.4 billion dollar settlement. Virginia's Attorney General Jason Miyares, who helped secured the money, said in a statement that the ...

While looking back on the highs and lows of her life in a new memoir, Christine Brown Woolley shares a raw confession about her past experience with oxycodone addiction. In her book, titled “Sister ...

Harlan County, Kentucky, a rural part of the state with high overdose rates, is becoming a model for addiction recovery. The county has implemented recovery programs, drug courts, and transportation ...