TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT

Frustration grows over wait on OxyContin maker's settlement

Purdue's proposed settlement is not the biggest in a series of opioid-related settlements in recent years that totals over $50 billion, but it is large and closely watched because of the blame many have given the company for its role in sparking the crisis with its marketing of OxyContin starting in the 1990s. The settlement also is the only one so far where some of the money is to go directly to people who lost loved ones or years of their own lives to opioids.