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A ruling upholding a disputed provision in the settlement would finally start the flow of payments from the company and its owners members of the billionaire Sackler family to cities, states, tribes, and individuals to help them cope with the costs of the ongoing opioid crisis.
In 2014, when the first opioid lawsuits were filed against Purdue Pharma, Tiffinee Scott’s daughter was still years away from her fatal overdose from addictive prescription painkillers, including Purdue’s OxyContin, which she was taking to manage sickle cell pain. That year, Dede Yoder’s teenage son was struggling with an addiction that began with an OxyContin prescription for a sports injury. He would die from an overdose in 2017, after attempting rehab eight times. It would be years before Gar