Sack­ler fam­i­ly reach­es new $6B agree­ment with states over opi­oid cri­sis

The bil­lion­aire Sack­ler fam­i­ly has reached an up to $6 bil­lion agree­ment with a group of states, which sought to pun­ish the fam­i­ly and its com­pa­ny Pur­due Phar­ma for fu­el­ing an opi­oid epi­dem­ic that took more than 100,000 Amer­i­cans just last year.

In ex­change for end­ing all cur­rent and fu­ture civ­il (but not crim­i­nal) claims against the Sack­ler fam­i­ly and its pre­scrip­tion opi­oid busi­ness, which mar­ket­ed the Oxy­Con­tin painkiller, the fam­i­ly on Thurs­day agreed to pay an ad­di­tion­al $1.5 bil­lion more than the fam­i­ly pre­vi­ous­ly of­fered. The funds will help states bet­ter tack­le the opi­oid cri­sis, in­clud­ing sup­port and ser­vices for sur­vivors, vic­tims, and their fam­i­lies.

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