Reckitt Benckiser to pay $1.4bn over opioid treatment sales

Reckitt Benckiser has agreed to pay a $1.4 billion fine to settle a US investigation into the sales and marketing of opioid addiction treatment Suboxone film (buprenorphine and naloxone) by its former prescriptions business.

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