Walmart to Pay $50 Million to Settle Opioid Lawsuit, US Says
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- The Hill Politics·5d agoWalmart settles DOJ opioid crisis lawsuit for $50 million
Walmart has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that its pharmacies filled hundreds of thousands of illegal prescriptions for controlled substances that fueled the opioid crisis, the Justice Department announced Friday. The settlement resolves a federal…
Read at The Hill Politics → - NYT Health·6d agoWalmart to Pay $50 Million to Settle Opioid Lawsuit, US Says
The resolution is part of an effort to hold retailers and pharmacists accountable for what the government says were their roles in the opioid epidemic.
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