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Purdue Pharma, the makers of the painkiller OxyContin, pleaded guilty to three federal criminal felony charges Wednesday as part of an $8.3 billion resolution involving the pharmaceutical company at the center of the nation’s decades-long opioid epidemic. Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to are one count of dual-object conspiracy to defraud …

Though Seattle has already set aside a budget for safe injection sites, Philadelphia city officials announced Tuesday that it is pushing to become the first U.S. city to open supervised drug-injection sites to combat its rampant opioid overdose epidemic. Safe-injection sites, also called safe-consumption sites, are centers where people can …