BREAKING: OxyContin maker reaches a $270 million settlement with the state of Oklahoma over the prescription painkiller's role in the nation's deadly opioid crisis, AP source says.
FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. Oklahoma's attorney general will announce a settlement Tuesday, March 26, 2019, with Purdue Pharma, one of the drug manufacturers named in a state lawsuit that accuses them of fueling the opioid epidemic.
The money will go toward establishing the National Center for Addiction Studies and Treatment at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa. Prescription opioids like OxyContin were a factor in a record 48,000 deaths across the U.S. in 2017, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Cheryl Juaire, whose 23-year-old son Corey died of an overdose in 2011, said she was devastated to hear about the settlement. She had been organizing a group of hundreds of mothers to go to the first day of the trial and stand outside with photos of their dead children.
It would be the first in the current round of lawsuits brought against the industry in the U.S. to go to trial.
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