The money adds to more than $50 billion in settlements obtained by state and local governments.
The company announced Friday it will pay up to $1.2 billion to states and local governments, and $36 million to Native American tribes over 11 years.
The money adds to more than $50 billion in settlements obtained by state and local governments suing opioid-industry players alleged to have flooded the nation with addictive pills, despite red flags that they were being diverted to the black market. Governments aim to use the money to ease the opioid crisis and save lives. Among the ways: paying for drugs to reverse overdoses, bolstering addiction treatment services and creating education campaigns.The nation’s addiction crisis is still raging, even if far fewer people are dying from prescription-pill overdoses. In recent years, the drug crisis has increasingly been propelled by illicit fentanyl manufactured in secret labs in Mexico and smuggled into the United States.
Attorneys representing states and other governments hailed the settlement as the first involving regional supermarket pharmacies. “With many cases against regional pharmacy defendants still pending, we will continue to aggressively litigate these remaining cases,” according to a statement by attorneys Jayne Conroy, Paul T. Farrell Jr. and Joe Rice, part of the plaintiffs’ executive committee of lawyers.Local governments in 33 states, as well as Washington, D.C., can opt into the settlement, the attorneys said. Payments are expected to begin in December.
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