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Georgia Joins $7.4B Big Pharma Settlement for Opioid Crisis

by B.T. ClarkJune 17, 2025June 17, 2025

Georgia will join other states and U.S. territories in a settlement that extracts $7.4 billion from Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, as recompense for their role in the opioid crisis that ravaged the country for a generation. “For years, the Sackler family profited off other people’s pain – destroying lives and families […]

Posted inHealth

Rural Georgia lacks access to essential opioid addiction treatment

by Thom ChandlerAugust 24, 2022September 24, 2023
Posted inCrime

Rome drug traffickers sentenced for distributing opioids that killed victims

by Thom ChandlerOctober 20, 2021October 20, 2021
Posted inGeorgia By The Numbers

Where did Georgia rank in overdose deaths in 2020?

by Thom ChandlerJuly 23, 2021July 23, 2021
Posted inYour Family

Georgia sees jump in opioid deaths

by Thom ChandlerJuly 9, 2021September 24, 2023
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