Florida Sues Walgreens, CVS Over Opioid Epidemic

Close-up of an opened prescription bottle, labelled as containing the opioid hydrocodone

Florida is continuing its legal battle to help put an end to the opioid crisis in America by adding Walgreens and CVS to a lawsuit filed last spring against Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Attorney General Pam Bondi said that “thousands of Floridians have suffered as a result of the actions of the defendants.”

She accused to two largest drugstore chains in the country of failing to prevent suspicious orders of opioids from being delivered and dispensing millions of pills in areas with small populations. 

The complaint accuses Walgreens of selling 2.2 million opioid tablets from a single pharmacy in Hudson, a town with just 12,000 residents and selling 285,000 pills in a single month at a store in a town with just 3,000 people. The lawsuit said that in some stores, the number of opioids sold increased by six-fold in just two years. 

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 110 Americans die every day after overdosing on opioids. 

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