Massachusetts could receive more than $100 million as part of a new $7.4 billion settlement in principle between prosecutors in more than a dozen states, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family,

Massachusetts residents who lost relatives to opioid overdoses expressed elation Thursday after the family that built its fortune on the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin agreed to a new deal to pay billions of dollars to communities ravaged by the opioid epidemic,

The agreement also ends the Sacklers’ control of Purdue Pharma and prohibits them from selling opioids in the United States.

Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, New York Attorney Ge