Employees warned pharmacy chains they needed more safeguards for prescription opioids
The nation's big name-brand pharmacy chains including CVS, Walgreens and Walmart face a federal trial that will test their liability for the opioid epidemic.
by Brian Mann
Oct 05, 2021
2 minutes
Internal documents cited during the opening session of a landmark opioid trial in Cleveland suggest the nation's biggest pharmacy chains were warned by employees about the dispensing of highly addictive pain pills.
Mark Lanier, lead attorney for two Ohio counties suing CVS, Giant Eagle, Walgreens and Walmart, read the documents into the court record as part of his opening statement.
"Walgreens is not verifying the
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