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4 companies on verge of settling $26B deal in lawsuits over toll of opioid prescriptions By Geoff Mulvihill Drug overdoses hit all time high during COVID-19 pandemic Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous year and amounts to a 29% increase. LiveNOW From FOX s Mike Pache speaks with FOX News Medical Correspondent, Dr. Nicole Saphier on the issues beyond the virus. NEW YORK (AP) - The yearslong effort by state and local governments in the U.S. to force the pharmaceutical industry to help pay to fix a nationwide opioid addiction and overdose crisis took a major step forward Tuesday when lawyers for local governments announced they were on the verge of a $26 billion settlement with the nation s three biggest drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson.

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