Category Archives: opioid
CVS, Walgreens announce opioid settlements totaling $10B
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News The Associated PressThe two largest U.S. pharmacy chains, CVS Health and Walgreen Co., announced agreements in principle Wednesday to pay about $5 billion each to sett...
Nov 02, 2022
Drugs, guns, cash and vehicles seized in four drug arrests Wednesday
Providence police display six handguns and more than $238,000 in cash October 14, 2022, all seized during four separate drug arrests on Wednesday. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPR...
Oct 14, 2022
Providence city worker is charged with peddling drugs
Christopher Anderson, 23, a Providence DPW worker is seen in a photo distributed by Providence Police along with some of the glassine bags of suspected fentanyl seized during his arrest.WPRO NewsProvi...
Sep 20, 2022
Pawtucket man gets 8 years in prison on gun, drug charges
Providence Superior Court. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island man has been sentenced to eight years in prison on gun and drug charges, prosecutors said Wednes...
Nov 10, 2021
Rhode Island man pleads guilty to drug trafficking charges
Federal court in Providence. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO NewsPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Providence man who tried to sell a large amount of fentanyl and heroin while under surveillance by law enforcemen...
Oct 18, 2021
Rhode Island man sentenced in North Dakota fentanyl case
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A Rhode Island man accused by prosecutors of having a "leadership role" an international fentanyl trafficking operation has been sentenced in North Dakota to 33 years in federal pri...
Oct 17, 2021
Appeals are mounting in Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News The Associated Press Objections to a historic settlement with Purdue Pharma are mounting in the form of appeals, with Rhod...
Sep 29, 2021
AP EXPLAINS: The tentative Purdue deal on the opioid crisis
By JULIE CARR SMYTH, The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A deal worth as much as $12 billion that's being negotiated between Purdue Pharma and its owners, and the state, local and tribal govern...
Sep 13, 2019
What a Purdue Pharma bankruptcy means for the Sackler family
By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL, GEOFF MULVIHILL and ADAM GELLER, The Associated Press Purdue Pharma could be heading for bankruptcy but the extent to which it would affect the Sackler family fortunes remains ...
Sep 13, 2019
Chaotic talks show challenge of reaching opioid settlement
By GEOFF MULVIHILL, The Associated Press For months, the judge overseeing national litigation over the opioids crisis urged all sides to reach a settlement that could end thousands of lawsuits filed b...
Sep 13, 2019
