San Mateo County will receive an additional $3.3 million from the Sackler family as part of ongoing litigation related to opioid abuses, officials announced this week.

The funds will be distributed over several years and add to the roughly $1.5 million already received from the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy estate, bringing the county’s total opioid settlement funding, including non-Sackler related settlements, to about $49 million.

The money received is the result of multiple lawsuits by more than 600 cities, counties, and Native American tribes nationwide, which accused Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers of fueling the opioid crisis through misleading marketing of the painkiller OxyContin and sought damages to help communities address its impacts.

San Mateo County said it was among the first t

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