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Drug Companies Reach Settlement as Opioid Trial Set to Begin

Reuters

   CLEVELAND - Four drug companies reached a last-minute legal settlement
   over their role in the opioid addiction epidemic, The Wall Street
   Journal reported Monday.

   Drug distributors AmerisourceBergen Corp, Cardinal Health Inc and
   McKesson Corp and Israel-based drugmaker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
   Ltd will announce the settlement on Monday, according to the report.

   It was unclear if the fifth defendant, pharmacy chain operator
   Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, had reached a settlement with the two
   Ohio counties that were the plaintiffs in the trial set to begin Monday
   morning.

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