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CVS Health Unit to Pay $315 Million Over Illegal Opioid Prescriptions
Original: CVS Health Unit to Pay $315 Million to Resolve Illegal Opioid Prescription Claims
A CVS Health unit has agreed to pay $315 million to settle claims that it filled illegal opioid prescriptions, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The settlement adds CVS to the list of pharmacy companies held financially accountable for their role in the US opioid crisis, an issue that has already produced tens of billions of dollars in settlements from drugmakers, distributors and pharmacies.
Why now: It is a major new settlement in the ongoing legal and public reckoning over the US opioid epidemic.
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