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The $7.4 billion settlement will bring nearly $76 million to Colorado, which will be distributed to local and state governments. It is the largest opioid settlement in the United States to date.

The settlement is a way to avoid trials with claims from states alone that total more than $2 trillion in damages. Thousands of local governments and other groups have also sued Purdue.

Advertisement Purdue opioid settlement could pay more than $850 million to victims if it advances Potentially more than $850 million from the settlement would go directly to individual victims.

Iowa will receive $37.8 million from a settlement with Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. The settlement resolves claims related to Purdue's role in the opioid crisis.