CONCORD – A global settlement announced Monday between attorneys general of 50 states and territories, including New Hampshire, and the opioid manufacturer Mallinckrodt will create a trust into which Mallinckrodt agreed to put $1.6 billion that will eventually be distributed to states to help them fight the opioid crisis.

The agreement, according to Attorney General Gordon MacDonald, comes roughly 14 months after the state filed a 68-page complaint in Merrimack County Superior Court alleging that Mallinckrodt, the largest generic opioid manufacturer in the U.S., violated New Hampshire’s consumer protection laws.

MacDonald said those violations include Mallinckrodt’s alledged “failure to disclose known and serious risks of addiction from its opioids, misrepresenting the abuse-deterrence qualities of its opioids and failing to report suspicious orders of its opioids,” according to the statement his office released Monday.

The complaint also accuses Mallinckrodt, through its alleged actions, “created a public nuisance throughout the state,” MacDonald added.

A full story is forthcoming on www.nashuatelegraph.com.

–DEAN SHALHOUP