Strome Business Minute With Dr. Jeff Tanner

Regular listeners know that we’ve been covering the opioid lawsuits for over a year, well before the story became mainstream. The proposed settlement in Ohio by McKesson, Cardinal Health, Teva Pharmaceutical and AmeriSource Bergen with the two counties who sued will close two of the first lawsuits brought and will trigger similar settlements in over two thousand more lawsuits. Henry Schein, another defendant, appears to have settled separately while Walgreens has refused to do so. Denying any culpability, this is the same Walgreens that is being sued by the state of Florida for allegedly selling 285,000 opioid pills per month in a town of 3000 people and another Walgreens sold 2.2 million pills a month in Hudson, Florida, population 12,000 in 2014.