National opioid settlements have been reached with defendants Janssen, Cardinal, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, Teva, Allergan, CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, and Kroger Co. This website provides copies of those agreements as well as additional documents and information concerning the proposed settlements.

May 6, 2024 · In 2021, nationwide settlements were reached to resolve all opioids litigation brought by states and local political subdivisions against the three largest pharmaceutical distributors, McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen (“Distributors”) and against manufacturer Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and its parent company Johnson ...

Dec 16, 2024 · From addiction treatment to toy robot ambulances, here's how state and local governments used billions in opioid settlement funds in 2022 and 2023.

Jan 23, 2025 · Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, the attorneys general from several states announced Thursday.

This Portal is the secure website to exchange information between Settling States and Participating Subdivisions/Participating Special Districts (Teva and Allergan) (collectively, “Beneficiaries”) and the Directing Administrator of the seven nationwide settlement agreements that resolve all opioid litigation brought by state and local ...

We live in a world that mistakes data possession for understanding, which means you’ve likely had the crisis explained to you in numbers: the 841,000 deaths from drug overdoses — over 2/3 involving opioids — since 1999; the 3,300 state and local lawsuits against “big pharma” opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers; the ...

Feb 25, 2022 · Four of the largest U.S. corporations have agreed to pay roughly $26 billion to settle a tsunami of lawsuits linked to claims that their business practices helped fuel the deadly opioid crisis....

Feb 2, 2024 · In addition to publishing watchdog analyses of the opioid litigation and the role of the law in the opioid crisis at large, Opioid Settlement Tracker reports state and national opioid settlements, monitors global settlement chatter, and publishes related court materials.

Further details regarding the States that separately settled can be found in the National Opioid Settlements website available at State Participation Status – National Opioids Settlement (nationalopioidsettlement.com).

Vital Strategies and I launched our original set of Guides (“Guides for Community Advocates on the Opioid Settlement”) in June 2023 to equip community advocates with expert-level analyses of each state’s unique opioid settlement spending approach.