| West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has filed lawsuits against Rite-Aid and Walgreens, alleging the two opioid distributors gained billions of dollars in revenue while causing harm to West Virginia citizens.
The lawsuits allege Rite-Aid and Walgreen supplied more opioids to their pharmacies than necessary. According to the lawsuits, even after that, those pharmacies ordered additional pills from other distributors to fill the demand.
Morrisey said Rite-Aid and Walgreens each knew they had an obligation to halt suspicious orders to its retail pharmacies, but failed to monitor or report that activity.
A number of small pharmacies, mostly in small towns in southern WV, pumped millions of pills into their communities.
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