Southeastern Connecticut's federally recognized Indian tribes — the Mashantucket Pequots and the Mohegans — are reviewing the terms of $590 million in opioids settlements that tribes across the country tentatively reached with Johnson & Johnson and three major drug-distribution companies.
The local tribes had filed separate lawsuits in 2019 against dozens of pharmaceutical companies, drug distributors and big-chain pharmacies over their alleged roles in the prescription opioids crisis.
All feder...