Walmart settles US opioid lawsuit; terms undisclosed

Over 905,000 people in the US died from opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2025, with annual deaths beginning to decline after 2022.

For more than two decades, the opioid epidemic has carved its losses into American communities, claiming over 905,000 lives and demanding, eventually, a reckoning from those whose practices fed its momentum. Walmart, one of the nation's largest pharmacy operators, has now settled a federal lawsuit brought by the Justice Department alleging its pharmacies repeatedly dispensed suspicious opioid prescriptions without proper scrutiny — closing a legal chapter that began in 2020 and once threatened billions in penalties. The settlement amount remains undisclosed, though Walmart called it immaterial

Walmart settles US opioid lawsuit; terms undisclosed

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