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Teva

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The world's largest generic drug maker, which agreed to a $6.6B opioid settlement for illegally marketing addictive painkillers that devastated communities across the U.S.

Last updated May 7, 2026

Reasons to avoid

Issues span:ConsumerAntitrustEnvironmentOther
  1. Major role in the opioid crisis - aggressive marketing of addictive painkillers.reuters.com2025-11-22
  2. Price-fixing conspiracies to inflate generic drug costs.nytimes.com2025-11-22
  3. Environmental pollution from manufacturing facilities.haaretz.com2025-11-22
  4. Settlements for bribing doctors to prescribe their medications.bloomberg.com2025-11-22
  5. Blocking access to affordable medications through patent manipulation.drugpatentwatch.com2025-11-22
  6. Poor quality control leading to contaminated drug recalls.healthcare360magazine.com2025-11-22

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