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Board approves first-reading settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors
Summary
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on ordinances to accept multi-year abatement payments from major opioid distributors and a manufacturer; closed-session briefings preceded the vote.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Nov. 2 to pass, on first reading, ordinances accepting multi‑year settlement agreements with major opioid distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson and with Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
The board convened a Committee of the Whole and held a closed session with the City Attorney’s Office before taking the votes. Supervisor Ahsha Safaie presided over roll call on the ordinances, which the clerk read as authorizing abatement payments to the city: an agreed range of approximately…
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