DOVER, Del. (AP) - Delaware’s attorney general says the state will get $1.3 million as part of a nationwide settlement with a company that had distributed a drug used to treat opioid addiction.
Attorney General Kathy Jennings said in a statement Thursday that the money is to settle allegations that the company defrauded Medicaid and other state health care programs.
The U.S. Department of Justice had accused an ex-Reckitt Benckiser subsidiary of marketing Suboxone Film by saying the drug was safer than other opioid addiction treatments.
Reckitt Benckiser said in July that it would pay $1.4 billion to resolve federal investigations. The states’ share of the settlement is $700 million.
Suboxone Film was marketed by RB’s former prescription business Indivior, which was spun off in 2014.
Reckitt Benckiser has denied any wrongdoing.
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