Af­ter deal shield­ing Sack­lers from fur­ther lit­i­ga­tion over­turned, fam­i­ly mem­bers to pour more mon­ey in­to set­tle­ment

Af­ter more than 500,00 peo­ple have died in con­nec­tion to the fam­i­ly’s drug, and the Hu­lu minis­eries Dopesick cast a broad­er light on the fam­i­ly’s in­volve­ment in the opi­oid cri­sis that has ripped through Amer­i­ca, mem­bers of the Sack­ler fam­i­ly are clos­ing in on an agree­ment to add to the $4 bil­lion of­fer to solve lit­i­ga­tion sur­round­ing the opi­oid cri­sis caused, in part, by the pain re­lief drug Oxy­Con­tin.

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