Addiction Treatment During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Published: March 18, 2021, 12:57 p.m.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma agreed on Monday to pay $4.28 billion to settle lawsuits alleging it helped to create the opioid epidemic. Nearly half of all U.S. states want a share of that money to pay for programs to address record overdose deaths and a worsening opioid crisis during the pandemic.