Pa.’s pharma settlement negotiation with three major players in the area will infuse nearly $45 million in local efforts to curb addition. Peg Quann reported the litigation’s resolution in the Bucks County Courier Times.

The county’s share comes from a $26 billion global settlement from three pharma distributors — Cardinal Health, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen — and one manufacturer: Johnson & Johnson.

Receipt of the full amount hinged on each municipality with a population over 10,000 residents agreeing to the settlement terms. Bucks County’s did, becoming the largest county to navigate numerous varied interests and concerns in unison.

Bucks County Commissioner Chairman Bob Harvie said the settlement “…will give us the chance to start healing communities.”

County officials have not formally decided how the funds will be spent.

More on this story is at the Bucks County Courier Times.