The settlement follows a federal judge's finding last year that the drugstore chain doled out hundreds of thousands of 'red flag' prescription drug orders without investigation.
More than 100 million prescription opioid pills were dispensed by Walgreens in the city between 2006 and 2020., San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the money will go toward programs that include “treatment beds, dual diagnosis beds, abstinence-based programming and transitional housing.”
San Francisco filed the public nuisance lawsuit in 2018. In a 112-page opinion last year, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer wrote that from 2006 to 2020, Walgreens dispensed hundreds of thousands of opioid prescriptions without proper vetting. “As a result of Walgreens’ 15-year failure to perform adequate due diligence, plaintiff proved that it is more likely than not that Walgreens pharmacies dispensed large volumes of medically illegitimate opioid prescriptions that were diverted for illicit use, and that substantially contributed to the opioid epidemic in San Francisco,” Breyer wrote.The money could start flowing to nearly every state and local government in the U.S. as early as April.
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