Billionaire Sackler family enters $6B opioid deal with support from holdout states

In a deal revealed Thursday, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family will pay up to $6 billion to states and victims of the U.S. opioid epidemic, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said in a statement. The civil settlement is 40% larger than the $4.3 billion deal inked between the company and dozens of states last fall.