New York will receive at least $200 million from a federal settlement with Purdue Pharma over the company’s product marketing which got more Americans hooked on opioids. The owners of Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, will be required to pay $4.5 billion over the next nine years. Funding from the settlement will be used to fund prevention, treatment and recovery programs in communities across the country, and thousands of individual victims will also receive compensation.
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https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-45-billion-settlement-purdue-pharma-over-its-role-opioid-epidemic