LAS VEGAS—The state of Nevada has reached a $285 million settlement with Walgreens regarding the pharmacy chain’s role in the opioid epidemic, the state’s top lawyer announced Wednesday. The last in a series of multiyear settlements with pharmaceutical companies, retailers, and others, it pushes Nevada’s total anticipated payments stemming from opioid claims to $1.1 billion,…
Nevada Secures $285 Million Opioid Settlement With Walgreens, Bringing Total Settlements to $1 Billion
Walgreens to Close 450 Stores
Pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has announced plans to shut 450 stores worldwide to reduce costs as the company struggles with poor financial performance. As part of the cost-cutting measures being implemented at the company, Walgreens is looking to “optimize our locations and opening hours, and expect to close an additional 300 locations in…
New Mexico Reaches $500 Million Settlement With Walgreens in Opioid Case
June 10, 2023
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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. Fentanyl, a highly addictive and potent synthetic opioid, was…
Chicago Walgreens Restricts Unlocked Aisles to Two Due to Crime
June 6, 2023
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A Walgreens in Chicago redesigned a store that would allow customers to browse only two aisles of products because of crime. Customers can only access those shelfs after they pass through anti-theft detectors. “Non-essential” items can only be ordered digitally from kiosks and later picked up at a counter as part of a pilot program, according…
Walgreens Reaches $230 Million Opioid Settlement With San Francisco
May 18, 2023
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San Francisco said on Wednesday it reached a $230 million settlement with Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. over its role in the city’s opioid epidemic. The settlement came nine months after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said the drugstore chain could be held liable for having “substantially contributed” to an opioid epidemic that…
San Francisco Prosecutors Will Not Pursue Charges Against Walgreens Security Guard in Fatal Shooting
The San Francisco District Attorney has announced that murder charges will not be filed against a Walgreens security guard in a fatal shooting that happened at a downtown San Francisco Walgreens. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced on Twitter on the evening of May 1: “The killing of Banko Brown was a tragedy & my heart…
California Governor’s Plan to Cancel Walgreens Contract Over Abortion Drug Blocked by Federal Law
April 10, 2023
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is backtracking on statements made last month, after federal regulations prevented him from pulling state contracts with Walgreens, over the abortion drug mifepristone the retailer refuses to dispense in 21 U.S. states. “California has no intention of taking any action that would violate federal Medicaid requirements, or that could undermine access…
Walgreens Plans No Further Wage Hikes for Pharmacists as Shortage Eases
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. said it does not plan to increase wages further, as a shortage of pharmacists eases after the company doubled down on hiring and pay raises last year. A labor shortage during the pandemic prompted Walgreens and other U.S. drugstore operators, including CVS Health Corp. and Walmart Inc., to raise minimum wages…
Democratic Senators Call Walgreens’ Decision Not to Sell Abortion Pill to Some States ‘Pandering’ to ‘Extremism’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with five other U.S. senators, sent a letter to Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer on Tuesday, demanding clarification and expressing “grave concern” about the company’s recently announced abortion pill distribution plan. The letter (pdf) followed recent news that Walgreens, the second-largest pharmacy chain in the United States, made the decision not to…
Is This California Pro-Lifers’ Moment?
Commentary Pro-lifers rallied March 6 in Sacramento in front of the Capitol. They numbered “a few hundred,” according to the Sacramento Bee. Given recent events in this state, this would seem not the most propitious time to try to save babies. Last November, voters passed Proposition 1, which wrote abortion “rights” into the state constitution,…
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