OPIOID SETTLEMENT REACHED STATEWIDE IN WEST VIRGINIA

Attorney General JB McCuskey announces West Virginia will receive 53-million-dollars from a nationwide settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family.  The seven-point-four-billion-dollar agreement holds the company accountable for its role in creating the opioid crisis.  West Virginia will receive its money over nine years due to the disproportionate impact opioids have had on the state.  The settlement also ends the Sackler family’s control over Purdue and prevents them from selling opioids in the US.