{"id":16306,"date":"2021-09-29T09:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=16306"},"modified":"2021-09-29T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:23:04","slug":"cherokee-nation-reaches-75-million-settlement-in-opioid-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/09\/29\/cherokee-nation-reaches-75-million-settlement-in-opioid-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherokee Nation reaches $75 million settlement in opioid case"},"content":{"rendered":" \"Chuck<\/a>
Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. of the Cherokee Nation discusses the Heartland Advanced Medical Manufacturing Regional Cluster with local officials in northeastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas on September 7, 2021. Photo: Cherokee Nation<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n
Cherokee Nation reaches $75 million settlement in opioid case<\/div>\r\n
Wednesday, September 29, 2021<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nThe Cherokee Nation<\/a> announced a $75 million settlement in a lawsuit filed against opioid manufacturers.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nThe settlement addresses opioid diversion claims case against three manufacturers: McKesson, AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation and Cardinal Health. The $75 million settlement, to be paid over six and a half years, is the largest in tribal history, according to a news release<\/a>.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cThis settlement will help reduce and prevent opioid addiction and its deadly consequences in the Cherokee Nation Reservation. We are grateful that these distributors share our desire to solve the problem. We believe today\u2019s settlement will do more to help solve this problem\u2014 and solve it sooner \u2014 than continued litigation,\u201d Cherokee Nation Attorney General Sara Hill said in the release.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n \u201cToday\u2019s settlement will make an important contribution to addressing the opioid crisis in the Cherokee Nation Reservation; a crisis that has disproportionately and negatively affected many of our citizens. This settlement will enable us to increase our investments in mental health treatment facilities and other programs to help our people recover,\u201d Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr.<\/a> added.\r\n

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<\/P>\r\nThe tribe initiated litigation against drug manufacturers and retail pharmacies<\/a> back in 2017. Documents cited a wide range of negative impacts<\/a> from opioid use on its reservation in northeastern Oklahoma.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“The opioid epidemic has taken a particularly heartbreaking toll on Cherokee children,” attorneys for the tribe told a federal judge. “According to the executive director of the Nation\u2019s Indian Child Welfare (KCW) office, there has been ‘a steady increase’ in adults abusing opioid drugs and whose children, as a result of that drug abuse, have come through the ICW system.'”\r\n

<\/p>\r\nLegal claims are still pending against Walmart, Walgreens and CVS, who are accused of flooding the reservation with excessive opioids.\r\n

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Related Stories<\/div>\r\n Cherokee Nation seeks to hold drug companies accountable for opioid epidemic<\/a> (December 18, 2017)
\r\n Cherokee \r\nNation ready to move forward with opioid lawsuit in tribal court system<\/A> \r\n(August 10, 2017)
Bill \r\nJohn Baker: Cherokee Nation battles opioid epidemic among our people <\/A>(August \r\n2, 2017)
Cherokee \r\nNation details devastating impacts of opioid crisis in Oklahoma <\/A>(July 25, \r\n2017)
Cherokee \r\nNation blames pharmaceutical industry for opioid crisis<\/A> (April 20, 2017) ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cherokee Nation announced a $75 million settlement in a lawsuit filed against opioid manufacturers.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,13,1],"tags":[77,76,72,127,1823,1523],"class_list":["post-16306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-law","category-national","tag-cherokee","tag-chuck-hoskin","tag-judiciary","tag-oklahoma","tag-opioids","tag-sara-hill","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/13\/chuckhoskin.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-4f0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}