Coffee opts into opioid settlement money
Coffee County officials met recently in a special-called meeting to approve a resolution to opt into nationwide opioid settlements.
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Coffee County officials met recently in a special-called meeting to approve a resolution to opt into nationwide opioid settlements.
Knoxville News Sentinel Tennessee will reap an estimated $600 million to fight its deadly opioid addiction epidemic as part of deal announced Wednesday between drug makers and distributors and states. Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and a half-dozen of his fellow attorneys general said they reached a historic settlement in what has been a years-long battle to hold opioid makers, distributors and dispensers financially responsible for a crisis they intentionally fueled. The $26 billion deal with three drug distributors — AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson — and d...