Purdue Pharma agrees to settle OxyContin opioid case with Oklahoma

Purdue and Sackler family members to pay Oklahoma $270m in settlement over illegal marketing of painkillerMembers of the Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma, the company that drove America’s opioid epidemic, appear for the first time to have acknowledged a role in the crisis by agreeing to pay tens of millions of dollars as part of a landmark legal settlement.Purdue and some Sackler family members are to pay a total of $270m as part of an agreement to settle a lawsuit by the state of Okl