The company admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to pay a record sum. Officials accused it of sending 100 million doses of narcotics in six years to a state with 1.8 million people.
By Lenny Bernstein Lenny Bernstein Reporter covering health and medicine Email Bio Follow May 2 at 8:09 PM West Virginia and drug distributor McKesson Corp. announced a $37 million settlement of a lawsuit over the company’s role in the opioid epidemic Thursday, a record agreement for the state that leads the nation in drug overdose deaths.
Those companies and McKesson control nearly 90 percent of the distribution of legal painkillers in the United States. The trial brought out evidence that the company paid doctors sham speaking fees and that in one case, an exotic dancer-turned-company executive gave a doctor a lap dance to encourage him to prescribe the spray, Subsys, which is used for pain suffered by cancer patients. The woman, Sunrise Lee, was among the people convicted Thursday.
In a closely watched state case, Oklahoma settled in March with Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, for $270 million and is scheduled to go to trial against Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceuticals May 28.
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