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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced that Maryland volition beryllium a portion of 2 multistate settlements with Johnson and Johnson on with the 3 largest distributors of opioid medications.
“No magnitude of wealth could ever compensate for the devastation wrought by the opioid epidemic,” said Attorney General Frosh. “But these settlements volition bring much-needed funds to code the harms Marylanders person suffered. The funds volition supply addiction treatment, prevention, and different abatement programs crossed the State to assistance Marylanders recover.”
Maryland is acceptable to articulation 41 different states, 5 territories and D.C. successful settlements. Officials said the colony volition resoluteness allegations that McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health failed to show and study suspicious orders of opioid products — resulting successful the diversion of those drugs connected a monolithic scale.
The Johnson and Johnson colony volition resoluteness allegations that the institution “deceptively marketed its fentanyl products to healthcare providers and patients.”
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Maryland and its subdivisions could person up to $411.17 cardinal from McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health. Johnson and Johnson could wage up to $91.6 million.
Additionally, nether the colony agreement, the Distributors volition statesman extended monitoring and reporting programs to code suspicious orders and diversion of opioids and Johnson and Johnson volition cease its merchantability of opioids.
CBS Baltimore Staff
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