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The opioid maker Johnson & Johnson and the country’s three largest drug distributors on Wednesday agreed to pay $26bn to settle a raft of lawsuits accusing them of acting recklessly and illegally in pushing prescription opioid sales when they knew the painkillers were driving an epidemic of addiction and overdoses. But after announcing the deal, Johnson & Johnson continued to insist its actions were “appropriate and responsible”. The distributors said they still “strongly dispute the allegations made in these lawsuits” even though they have previously paid significant...

‘A cartel shouldn’t get away with this.’ Anger at opioid settlements that exclude admission of wrongdoing Chris McGreal in New York © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP There is growing anger among families bereaved by the US opioid epidemic at pharmaceutical companies “buying their way out of accountability” with multibillion-dollar settlements that specifically exclude any admission of wrongdoing. The opioid maker Johnson & Johnson and the country’s three largest drug distributors on Wednesday agreed to pay $26bn to settle a raft of lawsuits...

He Lost His Son to an Overdose. Now He’s Taking On the ‘Top Drug Cop.’ One activist is asking the Biden administration to remember the failures that led to the opioid epidemic as it chooses the next head of the F.D.A. By Beth Macy Ms. Macy is the author of “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America .” Feb. 23, 2021 Ed Bisch, whose 18-year-old son, Eddie, died of an OxyContin-related overdose in 2001.Credit...Hannah Yoon for The New York Times In 1995, 12-year-old Eddie Bisch was on a family fishing trip in the Florida Keys when his father,...