Former W.Va. AG’s lawsuit against Amerisource leads to investigation by class action firm
from the article:
McGraw, and now-Attorney General Patrick Morrisey claim Amerisource, Miami-Luken Inc., J.M. Smith Corporation, the Harvard Drug Group, Anda Inc., Associated Pharmacies Inc., Auburn Pharmaceutical Company, H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Company, Keysource Medical Inc., Masters Pharmaceuticals, Quest Pharmaceuticals, Richie Pharmacal Co. and Top RX Inc. have substantially contributed to and substantially, illicitly and tortiously benefitted financially from the prescription drug abuse problem in West Virginia.
The defendants distribute various prescription drugs that are closely identified with the prescription drug problem in West Virginia and were on notice of the growing epidemic from the abuse of the prescription drugs, according to the suit.
The Attorney General’s Office claims the defendants are major distributors of controlled substances and have supplied the prescriptions to drugstores, which then dispense controlled substances based upon bogus prescriptions from physicians who are prescribing controlled substances for illegitimate medical purposes.
“Throughout their acts and omissions, these defendants have inserted themselves as an integral part of the pill mill process,” the complaint states.
So if you are a Drug wholesaler licensed to legally sell control substances to pharmacies that are licensed to legally to fill prescriptions .. written by legally licensed prescribers. And even though you have no knowledge of the prescriber that wrote the prescriptions and no knowledge of the patient that purchased the prescriptions… you have contributed to abuse of prescriptions…? When are they going after the insurance companies for paying for these meds and the Brand Name Pharma’s that produce the drugs.. and finally the US troops that help guard the poppy fields in Afghanistan. So the original source of the problem is our Federal Government ? Nothing like being both the source and solution to a problem ?
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Crazy as hell! This asinine government needs to remove its head from ass AND GO AFTER REAL CRIMINALS, such as those selling the illegal Fentanyl made in China and brought across our porous border!
To go after the these wholesalers, and all others listed that are of legal use is just insane.
I’m sick and tired of the overbearing Leviathan we have for a government.
Just like the tobacco lawsuits…sue the maker and distributor of a legal product cause somebody has to pay. Won’t be long before they attempt going after the alcohol indusry again and probably this time they’ll try and throw in the auto industry because the drunks used cars to maim and kill. We are in need of some serious tort refom in this country. And people wonder why drug prices keep going up. It’s BS like this