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  "id": 14375675,
  "title": "CVS Settles Justice Department Case Over Opioid Prescriptions for $315M",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/cvs-settles-justice-department-case-over-opioid-prescriptions-for-315m",
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  "summary": "CVS Health has agreed to pay $315 million to resolve allegations that the pharmacy chain operator unlawfully filled medically unnecessary prescriptions for addictive opioid painkillers, the US Justice Department said on Oct. 13. The settlement resolves a case the department …",
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        "title": "CVS to Pay $315M to Settle Justice Department Case Over Opioid Prescriptions",
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        "title": "CVS agrees to pay $315 million to settle Justice Department case over opioid prescriptions",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/cvs-agrees-to-pay-315-million-to-settle-justice-department-case-over-14290817",
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      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "CVS Pharmacy to pay US$315 million to settle US opioid lawsuit",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/cvs-pharmacy-to-pay-us-315-million-to-settle-us-opioid-lawsuit",
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