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Drug companies near global settlement over opioid crisis

A study released in October 2019 estimated that the opioid epidemic cost the US economy at least $631 billion from 2015 to 2018. [Photo: AFP]

Three leading American drug distributors and an Israeli drugmaker blamed for a deadly US opioid epidemic settled a bellwether civil lawsuit with two Ohio counties Monday, opening the door for a broader national settlement worth billions of dollars.

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