ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced this week that the state is getting around $66 million this year from the largest of Minnesota’s opioid settlements with around $300 million due to the state in the future.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar says manufacturers and distributors of opioids need to be held accountable.
“Across our nation, these companies were reaping profits and making literally hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars off the backs of people that they got addicted to their product without warning them,” Klobuchar said.
More than 5,000 Minnesotans have died from opioid overdoses.
