Walgreens Settles with San Francisco for $230 Million in Opioid Lawsuit.

Walgreens has agreed to pay almost $230 million to San Francisco to settle a lawsuit over the company's role in the opioid epidemic. The settlement is the largest award to a local jurisdiction against an opioid defendant in the country, with $200 million going towards local efforts to alleviate the opioid crisis. The agreement follows an August ruling by U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer, which said that Walgreens could be held liable for "substantially contributing" to the opioid crisis, which constituted a "public nuisance."