Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, agreed to pay $270 million to avoid going to trial in a closely-watched lawsuit over the company’s role in the opioid addiction epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans over the past two decades.
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Purdue Pharma and Sacklers reach $270M settlement in opioid lawsuit