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CVS Health reaches agreement for global opioid settlement

eAwaz November 4, 2022 Medicine

WOONSOCKET – CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS) announced today that it has agreed in principle to a financial resolution designed to substantially resolve all opioid lawsuits and claims against the company by states, political subdivisions, such as counties and cities, and tribes in the United States. If all conditions are satisfied and the non-monetary terms – which still need to be …

Indigenous people more likely to die from Opioid overdose

eAwaz December 15, 2021 Lifestyle

Vancouver – Data from the First Nations Health Authority in British Columbia shows that Indigenous people are five times more likely to experience an overdose and three times more likely to die than other residents. The gap has been further compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, the authority said.