The three largest U.S. drug distributors and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson have agreed to pay $590 million to resolve claims by Native American tribes that the companies fueled an opioid epidemic in their communities, according to court filings.
in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio. J&J said the money will be deducted from its $5 billion portion of the bigger $26 billion settlement.
The lawsuits accuse the distributors of lax controls that allowed massive amounts of addictive painkillers to be diverted into illegal channels, and drugmakers including J&J of downplaying the addiction risk in their opioid marketing. For the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in Washington state, any money the 550-citizen tribe receives will go toward a $17 million treatment center it is building, said Ron Allen, the tribal chairman.
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