You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Friday the 24th of January.

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In the late 1990s, Purdue Farmer aggressively promoted the use of opioids, specifically

oxycontin.

Some patients may be afraid of taking opioids because they're perceived as too strong, or addictive.

But that is far from actual fact.

Less than 1% of patients taking opioids actually become addicted.

Its actions helped fuel the drug addiction crisis in America,

which has led to 700,000 overdose deaths over the past two decades.

Now, the firm and its owners, the Sackler family, have agreed a $7.4 billion payout to settle thousands of lawsuits.

I got the details from Ned Atalphiq in New York.

The Sackler family was the wealthy owners of Purdue Pharma.

And Purdue made massive amounts of money selling opioid pain killers. It made the family billionaires. They had their names on, you know, art museums and other institutions. And OxyContin was promoted through doctor's offices, through advertisements. There was firms that worked

with Purdue Pharma to work on exactly how to market the opioid. And they really downplayed

just how addictive oxy cotton was. And what resulted was just an explosion of prescriptions across

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