Colorado is set to receive around $81 million from a $7.4 billion preliminary settlement with Purdue Pharma, the company’s owners and members of the Sackler family for their role in the opioid crisis.  The settlement...

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A $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma, Sackler family could help Colorado communities tackle the opioid crisis

Colorado is set to receive around $81 million from a $7.4 billion preliminary settlement with Purdue Pharma, the company’s owners and members of the Sackler family for their role in the opioid crisis.  The settlement still faces final approval from local governments across the U.S. that signed on as claimants and certification by the bankruptcy court. After that approval, the funds will be distributed across multiple states and communities over …

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Colorado could receive around $81 million, bringing the state’s total opioid settlement amount to $868 million  Colorado is set to receive around $81 million from a $7.4 billion preliminary settlement with Purdue Pharma, the company’s owners and members of the Sackler family for their role in the opioid crisis.  The settlement still faces final approval from local governments across the U.S. that signed on as claimants and certification by the b…

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Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners have reached a new $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging that the pain medication OxyContin caused a widespread opioid addiction crisis in the U.S., several state attorneys general said Thursday. The settlement was announced nearly seven months after the U.S. Supreme Court upended the company’s previous attempt to resolve the lawsuits in a bankruptcy settlement that would ha…

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Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. A chronic-pain patient advocate, who has been featured previously in KFF Health News coverage, spoke out on the social platform X about our “Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash” project: Oh, look an entire investigation, of course partly by shatterproof, looking at where the settlement…

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