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2 warnings and an advisory in effect for 6 regions in the area

OPIOIDS


Attorney General Ken Paxton secures $168M for Texas in opioid agreement with Walmart

On Thursday, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a planned $3.1 billion settlement with Walmart, with over $168 million designated for Texas, for Walmart’s role in the nationwide opioid epidemic.

International Overdose Awareness Day: 4 mothers to hold annual awareness event in honor of loved ones

August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day, a time for the world to come together to put an end to overdoses and pay tribute to the lives lost.

Texas settles another opioid lawsuit, wins $225 million against Teva

The state of Texas has reached a $225 million opioid settlement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, according to Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Texas doctor convicted after criminally prescribing more than 1.3 million doses of opioids, feds say

A federal jury convicted a Houston-area physician for unlawfully prescribing more than 1.3 million doses of opioids, the Department of Justice announced.

Watch live: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announces $290M statewide opioid settlement agreement with Johnson & Johnson

Texas Attorney General Paxton will discuss an opioid settlement on Tuesday at Houston Recovery Center.

AP source: Feds sue Walmart, accuse retailer of fueling opioid crisis

The Justice Department is suing Walmart, alleging the company unlawfully dispensed controlled substances through its pharmacies, helping to fuel the opioid crisis in America, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The civil complaint being filed Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020 points to the role Walmarts pharmacies may have played in the crisis by filling opioid prescriptions and by unlawfully distributing controlled substances to the pharmacies during the height of the opioid crisis, the person said. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)WASHINGTON – The Justice Department sued Walmart on Tuesday, accusing it of fueling the nation’s opioid crisis by pressuring its pharmacies to fill even potentially suspicious prescriptions for the powerful painkillers. The civil complaint filed points to the role Walmart’s pharmacies may have played in the crisis by filling opioid prescriptions and Walmart's own responsibility for the allegedly illegal distribution of controlled substances to the pharmacies at the height of the opioid crisis. The suit said that only later did Walmart allow pharmacists to do blanket refusals for these suspect practices.

Ex-Rice football player pleads guilty in opioid death

HOUSTON – A former Rice University football player pleaded guilty to selling the drugs that a player fatally overdosed on in 2018. Stuart Mouchantaf, 26, admitted Thursday to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, causing death, and possession with the intent to distribute, causing death, The Beaumont Enterprise reported. As part of Mouchantaf's plea agreement, prosecutors dropped a third charge related to distributing a controlled substance on a university campus. Federal prosecutors say that Mouchantaf supplied his former teammate with five pills, two of which he took before he died. Mouchantaf has been out on a $100,000 unsecured bond since his arrest on the federal charges in June.

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