oxycodone
Oregon becomes first state to legalize magic mushrooms, decriminalize street drugs
Oregon on Tuesday became the first state to legalize magic mushroom therapy — and to decriminalize small amounts of all street drugs. The mushroom bill, measure 109, allows trained “facilitators”...
'Oxy Doc' convicted of patient's overdose death dies of coronavirus
An 84-year-old ex-doctor who was appealing his conviction for the overdose death of a patient has died of coronavirus. Martin Tesher, known as the Upper East Side "Oxy Doc," had...
NYC doc busted for using inmates' names to write oxycodone scripts
A Queens doctor was busted for writing oxycodone scrips in the names of federal and state inmates he had never treated to obtain pills that could be sold on the...
Generic drugmakers sold most opioids during overdose crisis
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals doled out lavish perks for top U.S. employees who hit or beat sales goals for prescription opioids and other drugs: six-figure bonuses and a chance to snag a...
Ex-Brooklyn assemblyman who beat pill peddling charges to run for City Council
A longtime Southern Brooklyn pol who last December beat charges of helping a crooked doctor run a $6.3 million pill mill is attempting a political comeback by running for City...
Bribery charges dismissed against ex-state Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny
He was accused of helping a crooked doctor run a $6.3 million pill mill.
South Carolina drug dealer accused of helping teen kill herself with narcotics he sold her
A South Carolina drug dealer has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for selling narcotics to a depressed teenager -- then helping her use them to kill...
Opioid industry pushes for settlement in first federal opioid trial as jury is built
Lawyers in the first federal opioid trial resumed selecting a jury Thursday even as a push continued to settle the case before arguments begin.
Queens pill-mill doc gives sobbing court confession
The doctor behind one of the biggest pill mills in New York state history bawled Wednesday as he admitted to illegally peddling millions of oxycodone pills out of his Queens...
Doctor charged for trading opioids for sex in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania family doctor is charged with illegally doling out opioids to a patient in exchange for sex -- with the alleged scheme running for a full year, federal prosecutors...
Purdue Pharma offers $12 billion to settle opioid lawsuits: report
Purdue Pharma and its owners the Sackler family are offering to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits against the company for $12 billion, NBC News reports, citing two people familiar with...
84-year-old 'Oxy Doc' fights to stay out of prison during appeal
Defense attorneys for the 84-year-old man busted for flooding Manhattan with opioids — earning him the moniker "Oxy Doc" — are begging a judge to allow their client to remain...
Louvre drops Sackler name from museum wing amid OxyContin scandal
The Louvre is bidding 'adieu' to the Sackler name. The renowned Paris museum scrubbed from one of its wings any mention of the billionaire family -- principal owners of Purdue...
US lawmakers demand UN health agency change opioid guidance
Two US lawmakers are calling on the World Health Organization to withdraw pain care guidelines that include what they say are false claims about the safety of prescription opioids. They...
Met to reject gifts from Sacklers amid fury over opioid crisis
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday that it would no longer accept gifts from the Sackler family, principal owners of the drugmaker behind the painkiller blamed in the deadly...
83-year-old 'Oxy Doc' gets 20 years in prison
An 83-year-old ex-doctor convicted of illegally prescribing more than 2.2 million Oxycodone pills and other opioids -- leading to the overdose death of a 26-year-old Staten Island man -- will...
AG Letitia James announces suit against billionaire family behind OxyContin
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday announced a lawsuit against the billionaire family behind OxyContin — alleging that drugmaker Purdue Pharma sparked the national opioid crisis by seeking...
OxyContin maker Purdue weighs bankruptcy as it battles overdose suits
The manufacturer of OxyContin says a suit blaming it for Massachusetts' opioid crisis should be thrown out of court because most of the state's fatal overdoses involve illegal fentanyl and...
Authorities seize $600K worth of fentanyl disguised as oxycodone
New York authorities seized 20,000 highly potent fentanyl pills that were disguised as bootleg oxycodone in Manhattan and the Bronx earlier this month. The blue tablets, with a street value...
OxyContin maker wanted to push super-potent pills on patients
Purdue Pharma executives pushed to get patients on higher and higher doses of OxyContin — including a super-potent version nicknamed “Oxy-Coffin’’ — despite knowing the dangers, new court papers allege....