$ 26 billion from pharmaceutical companies to end the "opioid crisis"

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July 21, 202 126 billion dollars. A record sum that four US pharmaceutical companies agreed to pay out as a plea bargain for their role in the "opioid crisis".

The news was announced by New York Attorney General, Letitia James.

The companies involved are McKesson, Cardinal Health, Amerisource Bergen and Johnson & Johnson.     

The plea deal closes about 4,000 federal lawsuits filed for the deaths of patients who were too casually prescribed drugs that led to addiction and then death.

The "opioid crisis" has caused over half a million deaths in the United States over the past twenty years.