Walgreens to pay $500M in New Mexico opioid settlement.
Walgreens has agreed to pay $500 million to settle New Mexico's opioid case, in addition to $274 million in settlements obtained from Albertsons, CVS, Kroger, and Walmart last fall. New Mexico's opioid litigation has brought in more than $1 billion. The state argued that Walgreens failed to recognize suspicious prescriptions and refused to fill them. The settlement money is required to be used to fight the opioid crisis, which has been linked to more than 560,000 deaths in the U.S. over the past two decades.