California is expected to receive about $470 million from a multistate settlement with CVS over allegations that the pharmacy chain contributed to the country's opioid crisis, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday.Last year, CVS Health and Walgreens agreed to pay about $5 billion each to settle a raft of lawsuits brought by state and local governments accusing the chains of filling prescriptions that should have been flagged as inappropriate, helping to fuel an epidemic that has killed more than half a million Americans over the last 20 years.
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