US pharmacies ordered to pay $650.6m for role in opioids crisis

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CVS, Walgreens and Walmart must pay damages to two Ohio counties for oversupplying pills that ended up on black marketThe US pharmacy chains CVS, Walmart and Walgreens must pay a combined $650.6m to two Ohio counties to address the damage done by the opioid epidemic, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.The order by US judge Dan Polster in Cleveland comes after a jury last November concluded that the firms helped create a public nuisance in Lake and Trumbull counties by oversupplying addictive pai ...

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