Teva reaches $4.25 billion settlement over alleged role in opioid crisis
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Teva Pharmaceuticals will pay up to $4.25 billion in a nationwide settlement over its alleged role in the opioid crisis.
The drug giant announced Tuesday that the settlement with several state and local governments includes supplying up to $1.2 billion in Narcan, a nasal spray used to reverse opioid overdoses. The money will be paid out over 13 years.
Teva will also pay $100 million to Native American Tribes.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.