STAT Plus: Reckitt will pay $1.4 billion to settle federal probes into marketing of opioid-addiction treatment
Reckitt Benckiser agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion to resolve long-running investigations by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission into the sales and marketing of Suboxone Film, an opioid-addiction treatment, which is now sold by Indivior, its former pharmaceuticals unit.
The deal comes three months after federal prosecutors charged Indivior, which Reckitt spun off in 2014, with engaging in a multibillion-dollar fraudulent scheme to increase prescriptions of the medicine, which is dissolved in the mouth and also used to treat addiction to other narcotics.
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