OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is set to dissolve and be replaced with a new company operating in the public interest under the settlement of thousands of lawsuits that goes into effect Friday.
It's among the largest in a series of settlements over the toll of opioids over the past several years. It's particularly prominent because some people pin the nation's opioid epidemic to the sales efforts behind OxyContin, a powerful prescription painkiller that became available in 1996.
Here's a look at the epidemic and settlement by the numbers.
More than this many deaths in the U.S. have been connected to opioid overdose since 1999, according to federal data. The epidemic's death toll was first driven by prescription opioids, then heroin, and most recently — and most deadly — fentanyl.
The minimum money provided by the Purdue settlement. Most of it — at least $6.5 billion — is to come from members of the Sackler family who owned the company. They’ve also given up any interest in the drugmaker, which family members stopped controlling before it filed for bankruptcy in 2019. As part of the settlement, Purdue is being replaced by Knoa Pharma, with a board appointed by states and a mission to fight the opioid epidemic.
Members of the board of trustees for foundation that owns Knoa, announced Friday. They are Rahul Gupta, who directed the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Joe Biden; Paul Rothman, the former CEO of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; and David Saltzman, a co-founder of an anti-poverty philanthropy, The Robin Hood Foundation.
The estimated value of all opioid lawsuit settlements since 2019, according to analysis by Opioid Settlement Tracker. The companies that have settled suits with state and local governments and other groups include drugmakers, wholesalers, pharmacy chains and at least one consulting firm. Most of the money in the agreements is required to be used to deal with the epidemic.
How many years the Purdue settlement money will be provided over. The biggest amounts will come early in that period.
The number of individuals charged with crimes as part of the U.S. Department of Justice probe into Purdue that resulted in a guilty plea by the company.
Number of U.S. Supreme Court justices, out of nine, who ruled in 2024 to reject an earlier version of Purdue's settlement. They found that members of the Sackler family would have improperly received personal protection from lawsuits through the corporate bankruptcy process. Under the final deal, groups that reject payments can still sue members of the family.
The amount members of the Sackler family received in payouts from Purdue from 2008 to 2018, according to a 2019 audit. They have not received distributions since then. Nearly half that money went to taxes the Sacklers paid on behalf of the company. A congressional committee report in 2021 estimated that the family members had a total net worth of $11 billion at the time.
The number of company documents to be made public as part of the Purdue settlement. Like other opioid industry documents, they're to be maintained by the University of California San Francisco and Johns Hopkins University.
The approximate expected maximum payout to individuals — or their survivors — who can show they were harmed by Purdue opioids that were prescribed to them. The other major industry settlements don't include any individual payments to victims.
FILE - Pills spill in an arrangement photo of prescription Oxycodone in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
People hold a sign with the names of victims of the opioid crisis while rallying outside of a courthouse in Newark, N.J., Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Tanny Austin cries while looking at tombstones with the names of victims of the opioid crisis, including her son Sean Austin, during a rally outside of a courthouse in Newark, N.J., Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Israel carried out several airstrikes Friday on southern Lebanon that killed at least 10 people, while the militant Hezbollah group said it fired rockets and drones at northern Israel where two soldiers were wounded.
Israel’s military and Hezbollah kept up their attacks despite a ceasefire in place since April 17.
Israel’s military on Friday afternoon urged residents of the Lebanese village of Habboush near the southern city of Nabatiyeh to evacuate, warning that those close to Hezbollah’s facilities would be in danger. An airstrike on Habboush that occurred around the time of the warning killed six people, including a woman and a child, and wounded eight, the Health Ministry said.
The state-run National News Agency reported that four people were killed in strikes on three other southern villages.
By Friday afternoon, Hezbollah had issued six statements saying it launched drones and rockets at Israeli military positions.
The Israeli military confirmed that Hezbollah launched an explosive drone that fell in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon. Israeli media reported that a drone strike near Margaliot in northern Israel caused a fire, and that two soldiers were lightly wounded in a separate Hezbollah drone impact in the area.
Friday’s exchanges came after paramedics in southern Lebanon recovered the bodies of five people, including a man and his three sons, from under rubble in the village of Kfar Rumman, also near Nabatiyeh, a day after they were killed.
National News Agency reported that the five were killed in an airstrike late Thursday on Kfar Rumman. The agency identified those whose bodies were recovered as Malek Hamza and his sons, Ali, Fadel and Hamza. It said the strike also killed a Lebanese soldier. The Lebanese army confirmed that a soldier, Ali Jaber, was killed in the strike.
Despite the war, residents have continued to return to homes in southern Lebanon after being displaced for weeks because of the hostilities.
One of them was Umm Ali Khodor, whose apartment in the southern port city of Tyre was damaged during the previous Israel-Hezbollah war in 2024 and again in the current conflict.
“We were displaced, we rented a house, but as you know the situation is very difficult,” the woman said. “We could not continue so we returned to our home.”
Also Friday, a senior official with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies condemned the targeting of Red Cross volunteers during the Israel-Hezbollah war.
IFRC Under Secretary General for National Society Development and Coordination Xavier Castellanos Mosquera, who was visiting Lebanon, said that two Lebanese Red Cross volunteers have been killed and 18 others wounded by Israeli strikes. More than 100 health workers in total have been killed in Lebanon during the war, according to the country’s health ministry.
Mosquera told The Associate Press that Red Cross volunteers in southern Lebanon have described hugging each other before departing on a call “because they don’t know if they will return.”
He added that he had seen video showing “ambulances that were hit by bullets” while trying to rescue journalist Amal Khalil, who was buried in rubble when an Israeli strike hit a building where she was sheltering in southern Lebanon last month. Her body was pulled from the rubble hours later when rescuers were able to reach the scene.
The IFRC official also recently visited Iran, where he said key facilities of the Iranian Red Crescent Society had been targeted. Two chemical plants that had been their main providers of raw materials to produce plastic syringes and dialysis components were struck and destroyed. Another strike hit close to a Red Crescent rehabilitation center in Tehran that served children, elderly people and people with disabilities, causing damage.
Israel has denied that it deliberately targets health facilities and emergency workers.
The latest war between Israel and Hezbollah began on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel two days after the United States and Israel launched a war on its main backer, Iran. Israel has since carried out hundreds of airstrikes and launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, capturing dozens of towns and villages along the border.
Since then Lebanon and Israel have held their first direct talks in more than three decades. The two countries have formally been in a state of war since the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.
A 10-day ceasefire declared in Washington went into effect on April 17. The ceasefire was later extended by three weeks.
The Health Ministry said Friday that the war’s death toll reached 2,618 while 8,094 were wounded.
Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press journalist Koral Said in Abu Snan, Israel, and Abby Sewell in Beirut contributed to this report.
Sanaa Khalil, 35, a Syrian farmer who lost her two legs in the past days by an Israeli airstrike while she was working at a banana plantation, lies on a bed as she is assisted by a relative at a hospital in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, May 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Sanaa Khalil, 35, a Syrian farmer who lost her two legs in the past days by an Israeli strike while she was working at a banana plantation, lies on a bed at a hospital in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, May 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A domestic worker cleans a damaged bedroom in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Thursday, April 30, 2026 as the homeowner returns to the house. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Em Ali Khodor, 75, looks through her damaged apartment into a destroyed building that was hit few weeks ago by an Israeli airstrikeafter she returns to the house, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
