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

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.