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NEW YORK, July 20 (Reuters) - The three largest U.S. drug distributors agreed mid-trial to pay up to $1.18 billion to settle claims by New York state and two of its biggest countries over their role in the nationwide opioid epidemic, the state's attorney general said on Tuesday.

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