{"id":783618,"date":"2026-05-09T05:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783618\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:46:15","slug":"idaho-secures-24m-more-in-settlement-with-opioid-manufacturer-purdue-pharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783618\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho secures $24M more in settlement with opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BOISE (<a href=\"https:\/\/idahocapitalsun.com\/briefs\/idaho-secures-24m-more-in-settlement-with-opioid-manufacturer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Idaho Capital Sun<\/a>) \u2014 Idaho Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador\u2019s Office announced this week that the state is set to receive more than $24 million in the latest settlement with opioid manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, is set to dole out most of the funds within the first three years, but the distribution process will take more than a decade, the Idaho Attorney General\u2019s Office announced in a news release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sackler family and Purdue Pharma made billions marketing opioids they knew were dangerously addictive, and Idaho families paid the price,\u201d Labrador said in a written statement. \u201cThey knew the damage they were causing, and they did it anyway. Through this settlement, my office is recovering $24 million for Idaho, and we will keep pursuing pharmaceutical companies that profited from this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Labrador became Idaho\u2019s attorney general in 2023, Labrador\u2019s office said he secured over $127 million in opioid settlement funds. The Republican is <a href=\"https:\/\/idahocapitalsun.com\/2026\/02\/27\/idahos-republican-state-officials-are-all-running-for-re-election-who-are-the-other-candidates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">running unopposed in the primary election<\/a> but is set to face Lori Hickman, an attorney who\u2019s running as a Democrat, in the November election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Idaho\u2019s opioid settlement money is funneled three ways: 40% goes to the state, 40% goes to counties and cities, and 20% goes to public health districts. So far, entities in Idaho have received $73 million, with nearly $30 million going to the state, according to the Attorney General\u2019s Office\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ag.idaho.gov\/consumer-protection\/opioid-settlement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/behavioralhealthcouncil.idaho.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Idaho Behavioral Health Council<\/a> recommends to the governor how the state should spend its share. The council is <a href=\"https:\/\/idahocapitalsun.com\/briefs\/idahoans-may-submit-ideas-on-how-to-use-state-opioid-settlement-money\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accepting recommendations<\/a> until June 5, the Idaho Capital Sun reported.<\/p>\n<p> \t  \t  \t  \t=htmlentities(get_the_title())?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=get_permalink()?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=htmlentities(&#8216;For more stories like this one, be sure to visit https:\/\/www.eastidahonews.com\/ for all of the latest news, community events and more.&#8217;)?&gt;&amp;subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20EastIdahoNews&#8221; class=&#8221;fa-stack jDialog&#8221;&gt;  \t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOISE (Idaho Capital Sun) \u2014 Idaho Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador\u2019s Office announced this week that the state is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":783619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[210,1141,1142,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-783618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116543041487416689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}