Statue of Liberty in New York, USAWASHINGTON Feb 2 a total of $590 million in the «opioid case» from Johnson & Johnson and three product distributors, according to a document released by the Tribal Chiefs Committee (TLC). According to the document, which the committee sent to the Ohio court, Native Americans have been hardest hit by the «opioid epidemic». Native Americans have the highest rate of opioid overdoses.» TLC and Janssen Pharmaceuticals (subsidiary of J&J) agreed to settle tribal claims for $150 million payable over two years. TLC and distributors settled claims tribes (for an amount) of $439,964,500 payable over seven years,» the document states. The document lists McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen as distributors. Drug addiction is believed to have claimed lives over half a million Americans. The beginning of the epidemic is considered to be the late 1990s — early 2000s, when opioid analgesics began to be widely used in everyday medical practice. With the blessing of the pharmaceutical companies, which hid the data on the high degree of addiction, doctors prescribed strong narcotic drugs for standard pain problems. Medicines formed addiction and led to the transition to hard drugs. Now there are about 3.3 thousand lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy chains in the US courts. >Americans harshly criticized Biden for New Year's greetings
