#Walmart offers to pay .1 billion to settle opioid lawsuits

#Walmart offers to pay $3.1 billion to settle opioid lawsuits

“Walmart offers to pay $3.1 billion to settle opioid lawsuits” Walmart proposed a $3.1 billion legal settlement on Tuesday over the toll of powerful prescription opioids sold at its pharmacies, becoming the latest major drug industry player to promise major support to state, local and tribal governments still grappling with a crisis in overdose deaths. The…

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#America is being held hostage by loony demands 

#America is being held hostage by loony demands 

“America is being held hostage by loony demands “ Why are there so many problems in this country that aren’t addressed? Why, when we keep agreeing there are problems, can we not agree on any of the solutions? It doesn’t matter what subject it is, the problem is always the same. Already this year, there have…

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#Family remembers brother that fentanyl ‘robbed’ in 2019

#Family remembers brother that fentanyl ‘robbed’ in 2019

“Family remembers brother that fentanyl ‘robbed’ in 2019” This May marks the two-year anniversary since Marguerite Ward, 31, lost her baby brother Matthew to fentanyl poisoning in an accidental overdose. Matthew was only 21 when he died, and his family believes his addiction developed after he got a prescription for opioids in his early teens…

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#CVS, drug makers settle Florida opioid lawsuit for 0M

#CVS, drug makers settle Florida opioid lawsuit for $860M

“CVS, drug makers settle Florida opioid lawsuit for $860M” CVS and pharmaceutical companies will pay Florida a combined $860 million as part of the settlement of an opioid epidemic case, state officials said Wednesday. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said CVS Health Corp. and CVS Pharmacy Inc. will pay the state $484 million. Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd….

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#Stunning booze deaths show COVID rules kill American youth

#Stunning booze deaths show COVID rules kill American youth

“Stunning booze deaths show COVID rules kill American youth” A deadly scourge killed almost 100,000 Americans in 2020: alcohol.  During the first year of the pandemic, per a new report from the National Institutes of Health, 99,017 people died of alcohol-related deaths (including fatalities from accidents and liver disease). 74,408 of the dead were aged…

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#Judge tosses deal shielding Purdue’s Sackler family from opioid claims

#Judge tosses deal shielding Purdue’s Sackler family from opioid claims

“#Judge tosses deal shielding Purdue’s Sackler family from opioid claims” A federal judge has thrown out a settlement that would have shielded the Sackler family, which owned OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, from future lawsuits over opioids, upending the company’s plan to reorganize in bankruptcy court. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan said in a written ruling…

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