RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The state of North Carolina and scores of local governments could receive $750 million combined from a $26 billion proposed national settlement with several opioid producers, Attorney General Josh Stein’s office said. Stein, one of several ...

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By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson are on the verge of a $26 billion settlement covering thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids across the U.S., two ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A proposal in North Carolina’s legislature would let law officers access a statewide database recording who is prescribing controlled drugs from morphine to codeine. The move is part of the General Assembly’s efforts to grapple with the opioid ...

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North Carolina’s attorney general filed a lawsuit May 15, along with five other attorneys general, alleging that the maker of OxyContin is partly responsible for the opioid epidemic. Attorney General Josh Stein said in a news release that Purdue Pharma ...

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Holding: Defendants presented evidence that, despite 26 years of extraordinary amounts of pain medications, plaintiff’s pain from her compensable back injury remained at an eight or nine out of ten. This evidence supported the Industrial Commission’s uncontested finding that plaintiff’s ...

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Grim statistics on opioid addiction have spurred Brunswick County Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Ola Lewis and several other community leaders to urge Gov. Roy Cooper to declare a public health emergency in North Carolina. Lewis signed a letter earlier ...

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