CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Contributed to Opioid Crisis, Ohio Jury Finds
The combination photo shows a logo of CVS in Manhattan, N.Y., on Aug. 1, 2016, re-usable Walmart bags in a newly opened Walmart Neighborhood Market in Chicago, Ill., on Sept. 21, 2011, and a Walgreens sign in the Chicago suburb of Niles, Ill., on Feb.10, 2015. Andrew Kelly/Jim Young/Reuters
Three of the nation’s largest chain pharmacies, CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart, contributed to an opioid crisis in two Ohio counties, a federal jury found on Tuesday.
The three pharmacy chains sold and dispensed large quantities of the pain pills in Lake and Trumbull counties, and in doing so, helped fuel an opioid crisis, the jury found. Some of the pills purchased legally ended up being sold on the black market.
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