OxyContin Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images ProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer are looking into how individual opioid victims have been compensated for addiction and other harm as a result of the tens of billions of pills distributed throughout the United States during the prescription-opioid crisis. Please tell us about your experience seeking payment from the court-appointed trusts funded by the drugmakers Purdue, Mallinckrodt and Endo. About us: Craig R. McCoy was a veteran corruption reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Bob Fernandez was an enterprise and investigative business reporter, also at the Inquirer. We previously wrote for ProPublica and the Inquirer about the Endo bankruptcy . Our most recent story investigates the impact of Purdue’s new bankruptcy plan on victims seeking compensation for the harm they said its drugs caused. The post Are You Waiting for Opioid Settlement Money From Purdue, Mallinckrodt or Endo? Get in Touch. appeared first on ProPublica .
SRCProPublica
LANGEN
LEANCenter-Left
WORDS151
ENT9
THU · 2026-04-23 · 08:55 GMTBRIEF NSR-2026-0423-71587
NSR-2026-0423-71587News Report·EN·Legal & Judicial
Are You Waiting for Opioid Settlement Money From Purdue, Mallinckrodt or Endo? Get in Touch.
ProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer are investigating how individual victims of the opioid crisis are receiving compensation from settlement funds established by drugmakers Purdue, Mallinckrodt, and Endo. These trusts are funded by the companies responsible for distributing billions of opioid pills across the United States.
Peter.DiCampo@propublica.orgProPublicaFiled 2026-04-23 · 08:55 GMTLean · Center-LeftRead · 1 min
ProPublicaFIG 01
Reading time
1min
Word count
151words
Sources cited
1cited
Entities identified
9entities
Quality score
100%
§ 01
Briefing Summary
AI-generatedNEWSAR · AI
ProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer are investigating how individual victims of the opioid crisis are receiving compensation from settlement funds established by drugmakers Purdue, Mallinckrodt, and Endo. These trusts are funded by the companies responsible for distributing billions of opioid pills across the United States. The journalists, who have previously reported on the Endo bankruptcy and Purdue's bankruptcy plan, are seeking to understand the experiences of individuals seeking payments for addiction and other harms caused by these drugs. They are asking anyone waiting for settlement money from these specific companies to share their stories.
Confidence 0.90Sources 1Claims 4Entities 9
§ 02
Article analysis
Model · rule-basedFraming
Legal & Judicial
Public Health
Tone
Measured
AI-assessed
CalmNeutralAlarmist
Factuality
0.80 / 1.00
Factual
LowHigh
Sources cited
1
Limited
FewMany
§ 03
Key claims
4 extracted01
Craig R. McCoy and Bob Fernandez previously wrote for ProPublica and the Inquirer about the Endo bankruptcy.
factualnull
Confidence
1.00
02
The investigation focuses on payments from court-appointed trusts funded by Purdue, Mallinckrodt and Endo.
factualnull
Confidence
1.00
03
ProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer are looking into how individual opioid victims have been compensated.
factualProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer
Confidence
1.00
04
Tens of billions of pills were distributed throughout the United States during the prescription-opioid crisis.
factualnull
Confidence
0.90
§ 04
Full report
1 min read · 151 words§ 05
Entities
9 identifiedKey playerOppositionContext
PP
Purdue Pharma organization · Opposition
90
EI
Endo International organization · Opposition
80
M
Mallinckrodt organization · Opposition
80
P
ProPublica organization
70
TP
The Philadelphia Inquirer organization
70
O
OxyContin organization · Opposition
60
US
United States location · Context
60
BF
Bob Fernandez person
50
CR
Craig R. McCoy person
50
§ 06
Keywords & salience
10 termsopioid victims
1.00
opioid settlement
1.00
purdue
0.90
mallinckrodt
0.90
endo
0.90
compensation
0.80
drugmakers
0.70
bankruptcy
0.60
prescription-opioid crisis
0.50
court-appointed trusts
0.40
§ 07
Topic connections
Interactive graph Network visualization showing 6 related topics
View Full Graph Person Organization Location Event|Click node to navigate|Edge numbers = shared articles