San Francisco has said that its plan for abating its opioid crisis will cost $8.1 billion over 15 years and has asked a federal judge to order Walgreens Boots Alliance to contribute to the effort 'in an amount that will do justice to the parties and the public interest.'
that it contributed to the opioid crisis in a trial in which it was the only defendant, even though several drugmakers and distributors had separately settled with the city. Walgreens has denied any liability.However, the city said that equitable considerations, including the need for Walgreens to have funds available to pay other jurisdictions around the country in similar cases, could justify a lower award.
Breyer split trial into two phases, with liability and remedy to be decided separately. In his decision after the liability trial, he found that Walgreens' pharmacists filled hundreds of thousands of suspicious opioid prescriptions from 2006 to 2020 with pharmacists not given time, staffing or resources to properly investigate red flags.
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