Ridgerunner: They have deep pockets, this will cost them less money than litigating, and will keep them in a more favorable PR light than the alternative.

Riverrat: I can't remember the exact numbers but one of the reasons is Walgreens was selling really large numbers of opioids in one town in Pasco county that far exceeded what people in the town could use if everyone in the town was taking them.

Fleedle: its was hundreds of pills per resident