Largest opioid settlement in US history: Suboxone maker to pay $1.4 billion

Suboxone maker Reckitt Benckiser to pay $1.4 billion in largest opioid settlement in U.S. history, authorities say.

Suboxone maker Reckitt Benckiser Group will pay the U.S. government a record $1.4 billion to end criminal and civil probes into the marketing of its addiction treatment medication, making it the largest settlement related to the opioid crisis in U.S. history, authorities said on Thursday.

Suboxone, which proved to be a blockbuster-selling drug for Indivior, is an addiction-fighting medication that also contains opioids. Indivior was spun off into a separate company from the RB Group in December 2014, but the exposure and looming litigation and probes related to Suboxone were still attached to the parent company.

Prosecutors also charged that Indivior promoted the company's"Here to Help" web and phone program as a resource for opioid-addiction patients, which they alleged was actually a method of connecting those patients to doctors the company knew were already prescribing Suboxone and other opioids"to more patients than allowed by federal law, at high doses, and in a careless and clinically unwarranted manner," the DOJ statement said.

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