The City is now in line to receive payments from Walmart and CVS, both of which agreed to massive settlements in cases that accused them of overprescribing opioids and fueling the current epidemic.
Walmart agreed last November to pay $3.1 billion to settle a litany of opioid-related lawsuits across the nation, including up to $265 million to the state of California.
The funds in both settlement agreements are intended to be used for opioid addiction treatment and prevention programs. When 'increasingly gusty' winds will be most powerful across Bay Area Bay Area residents waiting for spring to finally arrive just need to get through Monday Walmart, CVS and Walgreens have all been accused of failing to rein in the plentiful opioid prescriptions distributed out of its pharmacies, serving as a catalyst of an epidemic that has gripped the country.
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