Opioid settlement money on Kalamazoo County board agenda tonight

KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – More opioid settlement money could soon be rolling into Kalamazoo County coffers.

The County Board will be asked to opt-in to a couple of new settlement deals this evening, with one being a $100-million settlement with Sandoz Pharmaceuticals and the other a new $8-billion dollar with Purdue Pharma, and their owners, the Sackler family.

The new deal with the Sackler’s was required after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the original deal last year to settle claims over the damage done by the drug oxycontin…

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