Attorney General says state will start seeing opioid settlement payments this spring

SC to get hundreds of millions from "Big Pharma"
Attorney General announces pay off in settlement
Photo credit Lee Rogers

South Carolina's share of the just-announced settlement of the 52-state lawsuit against major opioid-makers will total about 300 million dollars. The 26-billion dollar agreement between Pharmaceutical distributors Cardinal, McKesson, Americsource Bergen and Johnson & Johnson will be monitored by a national administrator. State Attorney-General Alan Wilson says the money will be distributed over the next eighteen years with the first payments reaching South Carolina beginning in April.

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