Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has signed on to a settlement that will grant state and local governments $58 million over Purdue Pharmaceuticals’ involvement in the country’s opioid epidemic, Ford’s office announced Monday.

The $7.4 billion total settlement also prevents the Sackler family, who oversaw Purdue’s aggressive marketing of opioids for decades, from controlling the company and selling opioids in the country, according to the press release.

The money going to Nevada will be dispensed over 15 years, but most of the settlement will be distributed over the first three years to support addiction treatment, prevention and recovery, the attorney general’s office wrote.

The settlement would also “resolve” ongoing litigation that Purdue, which manufactured OxyContin, and the Sacklers are involved in. The family told the group of 55 attorneys general that they plan on going forward with the deal.

“I have repeatedly stated that we will hold accountable those who have contributed to the ongoing opioid epidemic and its devastating impacts,” Ford wrote. “I am thrilled to see this money come into Nevada to help ensure we fight this epidemic from the ground up.”

In total, Nevada has secured almost $1.2 billion in settlements related to the opioid crisis, the office wrote. Opioids, both legal and illegal, were involved in over two-thirds of drug overdose deaths in Clark County in 2023, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is pushing a recent increase in opioid-related deaths in the county, the district wrote last year.

But the now decades-long crisis was fueled by the legal market. Three-quarters of those who began abusing opioids in the 2000s started with a prescription drug, according to the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.

“Today’s settlement is the latest action we have taken to hold those bad actors accountable,” Ford wrote in the statement. “I am proud to see the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma held responsible for their actions.”