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Updated July 20 Tentative opioid deal would provide $26 billion and a new way to regulate painkillers Opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. have claimed more than 500,000 lives since 1999, and Maine s drug overdose deaths increased by 33% in 2020. By Meryl Kornfield and Lenny BernsteinThe Washington Post Read Article WASHINGTON More than two decades and 500,000 overdose deaths after the U.S. opioid epidemic began, the biggest penalty for drug companies’ role in the crisis was announced Tuesday, when lawyers for states, cities and counties detailed a tentative settlement worth $26 billion. The three major drug distributors – which federal law assigns primary responsibility for preventing illegal diversion of pharmaceutical painkillers – would pay $21 billion over 18 years. Those companies, McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen, have been accused of ignoring clear signs that billions of pills spilled onto the black market and contributed to ....
âYou just dig yourself into a hole, and you canât climb out of itâ: In Maine, addiction crisis deepened by the pandemic The pandemic cut many people off from counseling and group meetings when they needed them most By Brian MacQuarrie Globe Staff,Updated March 13, 2021, 2:30 p.m. Email to a Friend Roy Lee stood next to his girlfriend Trina Mills as she held onto a large photograph of her son Shane Robert Mills while attending Black Balloon Day in Portland, Maine. The day honored those who have died due to accidental overdoses.Erin Clark/Globe Staff PORTLAND, Maine â The spring-like setting was sublime, Casco Bay shimmering below a large hillside park where hundreds of people, memorial balloons in hand, had gathered in sorrow. ....