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Hundreds of Native American tribes reached a tentative $590 million opioids settlement with Johnson & Johnson and drug distributors.

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 1:31 PM EST

Money from the settlement would go toward addiction and treatment and would be overseen by Native American tribal leaders.

Together with a deal struck last fall between the distributors and the Cherokee Nation for $75 million, the tribes will be paid a total of $665 million.

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