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All 50 states agree to OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s plan for Sackler family to pay up to $7 billion to settle opioid epidemic lawsuits

Government entities, emergency room doctors, insurers, families of children born into withdrawal and others would have until Sept. 30 to vote on...

Geoff Mulvihill

The Sacklers agreed to pay up to $6.5 billion and give up ownership of the company, which would pay nearly $900 million.

Results were still pending in three other states with abortion measures on the ballot.

Passing certain amendments in Arizona, Florida, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota likely would lead to undoing bans or restrictions.

"There's an irony in what's happened in the post-Dobbs landscape," one activist says. “In some places abortion care is more accessible and...