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US Opioid Crisis

FILE - The Purdue Pharma offices are seen, May 8, 2007, in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, File)

The wheels of justice can grind slowly, especially when large amounts of money are involved, but justice of some sort is being done.

Ƶ reported by the Ƶsociated Press on Thursday, members of the Sackler family, who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, the attorneys general from several states announced Thursday.

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