CVS, Walmart, Walgreens Reach $12 Billion Opioid Settlement

[cbabe]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/cvs-walmart-walgreens-reach-12-billion-opioid-settlement/ar-AA13DyJf

CVS, Walmart, Walgreens Reach $12 Billion Opioid Settlement

Bloomberg) -- CVS Health Corp., Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walmart Inc. have tentatively agreed to pay more than $12 billion to resolve thousands of state and local government lawsuits accusing the chains of mishandling opioid painkillers, according to people familiar with the matter.

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[panader0]

1. How is that huge sum dispensed? Can I have some?

[GusBob]

2. Great question

It’s a fine to the government
Or governments of states ?

The money should be used for drug courts and drug treatment which clean folks up keep them alive and out of jail

That or drone spraying poppy fields with herbicide

The sad truth is the addicts have turned to black tar heroin now

[panader0]

3. Hard to imagine, but heroin is safer than fentanyl.

And sprayed poppies will still be made into heroin, if they survive, and the poison will end up in the product.
Like the herbicide the US sprayed on Mexican pot. And good old agent orange in Vietnam.

[GusBob]

4. Yes truth

Burn the fields then
And the fenty labs too

Don’t know if this is true or not but I recall hearing sometime that when heroin got to be a problem in the 70’s Nixon negotiated with the poppy farmers and paid them off to grow something else

Probably a myth

[lindysalsagal]

5. Here's why the stores are being sued:

The pharmacy chains were sued for allegedly failing to create legally mandated monitoring systems to detect illegitimate opioid prescriptions being filled. The companies countered that most of the problems tied to the painkillers come from illegal versions of the drugs brought in from outside the US by criminal gangs.

In August, a federal judge overseeing all federal opioid suits ordered CVS, Walgreens and Walmart to pay $650 million in so-called “abatement fees” to help two Ohio counties cope with the fallout from the public-health crisis created by the epidemic. His ruling came after jurors held the chains responsible for lax opioid monitoring.