Walmart settles Justice Department opioid lawsuit over invalid prescriptions

Over 800,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses during the epidemic period from 1999 to 2023.

In the long reckoning that follows mass suffering, institutions are called to account for the roles they played — however quietly, however procedurally. Walmart, operator of nearly 4,600 pharmacies, has settled a federal lawsuit alleging it dispensed thousands of invalid opioid prescriptions and failed to flag suspicious orders during an epidemic that claimed more than 800,000 American lives over two decades. The terms remain undisclosed, but the Justice Department's language makes clear this is not a closing chapter — it is part of an ongoing effort to trace the architecture of a catastrophe

Walmart settles Justice Department opioid lawsuit over invalid prescriptions

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