{"id":1007,"date":"2019-03-26T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nixlaw.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1007"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:41:53","slug":"nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"NP, Whitten Secure $270M Purdue Pharma Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26, 2019, the State of Oklahoma announced that one of the defendants in litigation against several manufacturers of opioid-based painkillers, Purdue Pharma, had agreed to pay $270 million to settle the claims brought against it by the State of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter. The State alleged Purdue aggressively marketed its opioid painkiller, OxyContin, thereby fueling an opioid crisis that left thousands dead in the State of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement came on the heels of Purdue\u2019s lost attempt to delay the upcoming May 28<sup>th<\/sup> trial for 100 days\u2014a ruling made by Cleveland County District Court Judge Thad Balkman and affirmed by the Oklahoma Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the settlement, Purdue will immediately contribute $102.5\u00a0million to establish a world class foundation for addiction treatment and research at Oklahoma State University, with additional payments of $15 million each year for the next five years beginning in 2020. The company will also provide $20 million of addiction treatment and opioid rescue medications to the center over the same five-year time frame.\u00a0And, $12.5 million from the settlement will be used directly to help cities and counties struggling with the opioid crisis.\u00a0The Sackler family, who founded and own Purdue Pharma, will also contribute<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purduepharma.com\/news-media\/2019\/03\/purdue-pharma-announces-landmark-agreement-with-oklahoma-to-advance-the-treatment-of-addiction\/\">\u00a0$75 million\u00a0<\/a>over the next five years to the treatment and research center.<\/p>\n<p>Lead NP attorney, Brad Beckworth, said the model here is that &#8220;the money needs to go to fixing the problem.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;This is a major step in trying to turn this ship,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The only way you can fix the problem is treat addiction, destigmatize addiction and educate doctors and the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He believes that the settlement will set a precedent. &#8220;I hope other states will use this as a model to deal with the problem in their respective communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a new day in Oklahoma, and for the nation, in our battle against addiction and the opioid epidemic,&#8221; Attorney General Mike Hunter said.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement was only with Purdue Pharma, and the other defendants are still scheduled to go to trial. &#8220;We&#8217;re ready to go to trial on May 28,&#8221; Hunter said.\u00a0The trial will be the first in the nation that could determine pharmaceutical companies&#8217; role in the nation&#8217;s opioid crisis and whether Big Pharma should pay for it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_641_cnn\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-641-cnn\" style=\"width: 75px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nixlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/OxyContin-maker-to-settle-historic-Oklahoma-opioid-lawsuit-CNN.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-641\" src=\"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NP-ARTICLE-NEW-PDF.jpg\" alt=\"CNN article PDF preview\" width=\"75\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-641-cnn\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><small>CNN<\/small><\/strong><br \/><strong><small>03\/26\/19<\/small><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_641_washington_post\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-641-washington-post\" style=\"width: 75px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nixlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Purdue-Pharma-state-of-Oklahoma-reach-settlement-in-landmark-opioid-lawsuit-The-Washington-Post.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-641\" src=\"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NP-ARTICLE-NEW-PDF.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Post article PDF preview\" width=\"75\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-641-washington-post\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><small>Washington Post<\/small><\/strong><br \/><strong><small>03\/26\/19<\/small><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"news_attorney_categories":[15,35,36,37,23,38,39,40,41,32],"news_categories":[17],"news_practice_areas":[315],"news_years":[34],"class_list":["post-1007","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_attorney_categories-bradley-beckworth","news_attorney_categories-brooke-churchman","news_attorney_categories-cody-hill","news_attorney_categories-drew-pate","news_attorney_categories-jeffrey-angelovich","news_attorney_categories-lisa-baldwin","news_attorney_categories-nathan-hall","news_attorney_categories-r-winn-cutler","news_attorney_categories-ross-leonoudakis","news_attorney_categories-trey-duck","news_categories-case-update","news_years-34"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$270M Purdue Pharma Settlement | Nix Patterson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"$270M Purdue Pharma Settlement | Nix Patterson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On March 26, 2019, the State of Oklahoma announced that one of the defendants in litigation against several manufacturers of opioid-based painkillers, Purdue Pharma, had agreed to pay $270 million to settle the claims brought against it by the State of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter. The State alleged Purdue aggressively marketed its [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nix Patterson, LLP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Nix-Patterson-Roach-LLP-560328770976672\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-03T22:41:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-23-at-11.58.57-AM.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1522\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"940\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Tiempo de lectura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutos\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"$270M Purdue Pharma Settlement | Nix Patterson","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/","og_locale":"es_ES","og_type":"article","og_title":"$270M Purdue Pharma Settlement | Nix Patterson","og_description":"On March 26, 2019, the State of Oklahoma announced that one of the defendants in litigation against several manufacturers of opioid-based painkillers, Purdue Pharma, had agreed to pay $270 million to settle the claims brought against it by the State of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter. The State alleged Purdue aggressively marketed its [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/","og_site_name":"Nix Patterson, LLP","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Nix-Patterson-Roach-LLP-560328770976672\/","article_modified_time":"2026-06-03T22:41:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1522,"height":940,"url":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-23-at-11.58.57-AM.png","type":"image\/png"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Tiempo de lectura":"3 minutos"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/","url":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/","name":"$270M Purdue Pharma Settlement | Nix Patterson","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NP-ARTICLE-NEW-PDF.jpg","datePublished":"2019-03-26T18:19:44+00:00","dateModified":"2026-06-03T22:41:53+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"es","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es","@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NP-ARTICLE-NEW-PDF.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/NP-ARTICLE-NEW-PDF.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/practice-areas\/dangerous-drug-and-medical-device-litigation\/nix-patterson-and-whitten-burrage-obtain-historic-270-million-settlement-with-purdue-pharma-in-oklahoma-opioid-litigation\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Nix Patterson, LLP","item":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NP, Whitten Secure $270M Purdue Pharma Settlement"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/","name":"Nix Patterson, LLP","description":"A national contingency fee law firm providing litigation strategies and solutions","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/#organization"},"alternateName":"Nix Law","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"es"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/#organization","name":"Nix Patterson, LLP","url":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es","@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cropped-nix-logo-vector-logo-tag.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cropped-nix-logo-vector-logo-tag.webp","width":1198,"height":272,"caption":"Nix Patterson, LLP"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Nix-Patterson-Roach-LLP-560328770976672\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/11394755\/"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"news_attorney_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_attorney_categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"news_practice_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_practice_areas?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"news_years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nixlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_years?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}