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Under the terms of a multibillion-dollar proposed settlement with multiple states, pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and the family that owns it would pay Colorado $50 million to combat the opioid crisis.
Former Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican, first sued Purdue Pharma in 2018 over allegations the company employed deceptive marketing practices to sell highly addictive opioid medication. Now-Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat, expanded the state’s legal action the following year, The Colorado Sun reported. A resolution between Purdue, members of the Sackler family, Colorado and other states that sued the company was filed Wednesday in federal bankruptcy court in New York.