A deal has been reached with the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma with a group of states that had objected to the company’s bankruptcy plan and went through two months of court-ordered mediation to reach a new agreement. The settlement requires the Sackler family to pay up to $6 billion to communities that suffered from the opioid crisis, and the Sackler family would see a stop to all current and future civil actions against them over their company’s involvement in the opioid crisis. Judge Robert Drain, the presiding judge over Purdue’s bankruptcy proceedings in New York, initially approved the settlement..