Prognosis
Facing Wave of Opioid Lawsuits, Drug Companies Sprinkle Charity on Hard-Hit Areas
Grants and gifts from the drug industry are flowing into communities that sued over the epidemic.
A full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal paid for by Purdue Pharma LP.
Photographer: Eugene Reznik/Bloomberg
The drug industry is dishing out millions in grants and donations to organizations in cities, counties and states that have sued the companies over the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic.
The efforts could help makers and distributors of prescription painkillers, who face hundreds of lawsuits by communities across the country, reduce their tax bills and build goodwill ahead of a potential multibillion-dollar settlement over their role in a crisis that kills more than 100 Americans a day.