New twist in the opiate crisis, these painkillers that have pushed hundreds of thousands of Americans into addiction.
On Wednesday, August 17, a federal judge in the state of Ohio ordered Walmart, CVS and Walgreens, the three largest pharmaceutical distributors in the United States, to pay Lake Counties a fine of more than $650 million. and Trumbull.
According to lawyer Mark Lanier, of the firm Lanier LLC, responsible for defending the plaintiffs, the sum should be used to
“reimburse agencies and organizations for the costs incurred in managing the crisis”.
The judge's decision was to fix the conviction of the distributors following a first trial last November, which had established the responsibility of the signs
"for the lack of control in the spread of the prescriptions of opioids, fatal and causing a strong addiction",
adds the cabinet .
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