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Idaho announces $119 million opioid crisis settlement

FILE - Debra Cross, director of operations for Provoking Hope, an addiction recovery center in McMinnville, Ore., displays an emergency kit used to treat opioid overdose as she stands inside an ambulance converted into a mobile needle-exchange unit on Dec. 9, 2021. Idaho officials on Friday, May 13, 2022, announced a $119 million settlement with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors over their role in the opioid addiction crisis. The money will address damage wrought by opioids, which the federal government declared a public health emergency in 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File) FILE - The Johnson & Johnson logo appears on the exterior of a first aid kit in Walpole, Mass., on Feb. 24, 2021. Idaho officials on Friday, May 13, 2022, agreed to a $119 million settlement with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors over their role in the opioid addiction crisis. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) FILE - An arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. Idaho officials on Friday, May 13, 2022, agreed to a $119 million settlement with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors over their role in the opioid addiction crisis. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File) FILE - Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden during an interview in Boise, Idaho, on March 1, 2017. Idaho officials on Friday, May 13, 2022, have announced a $119 million settlement with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors over their role in the opioid addiction crisis. Republican Attorney General Wasden said it's the second-largest consumer settlement in state history, trailing only the 1998 national tobacco settlement of $712 million. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)