New Mexico Reaches $500 Million Settlement With Walgreens in Opioid Case

Bottles of prescription painkillers Oxycodone Hydrochloride, 30mg pills, made by Mallinckrodt sit on a counter at a local pharmacy, in Provo, Utah, on April 25, 2017. George Frey/Reuters

New Mexico has settled with Walgreens for $500 million over the pharmacy’s role in giving highly addictive prescription opioid painkillers without due attention to prescriptions raising concerns for drug abuse and addiction.

Opioids include legal painkillers such as OxyContin, and various forms of the drug fentanyl.