majority of states and settled with the the largest opioid distributors, but we chose to fight them in

New Brunswick, N.J., has nine years to pay its$ 5-billion share.... The distributors

, company executives mocked individuals suffering the painful effects of opioid dependence

resolving claims that three large U.S. drug distributors and the drugmaker Johnson Johnson fueled a

opioid crisis in the state that has long led the nation in drug overdose deaths. State Atty

JJ will pay$ 5 billion to settle claims it illegally marketed opioids, which it stopped making last

Nationally, opioids have been linked to more than 500, 000 deaths since 2000. The court also

opioid crisis a public health emergency in the state back in 2017.... Florida has in total recieved

The workers, who themselves are recovering from drug addiction, offer counseling, coffee and, for some, clean syringes. McMinnville and thousands of other towns across the United States are on the precipice of receiving billions of dollars in the second-biggest legal settlement in U.S. history.... They were for a painful spinal bone spur.... Ten years later, using her prescription and buying two other people's prescriptions, she was taking 35 pills per day, far exceeding the maximum dosage.“ I

The effort to hold drug companies, pharmacies and distributors accountable for their role in the