Florida is suing pharmacy chains Walgreens and CVS over their role in what the state calls “unconscionable efforts to increase the demand and supply of opioids into Florida.”
State Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office announced Friday that it had added the two companies to a lawsuit filed in May against opioid distributors and manufacturers — including OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma, Percocet-maker Endo Pharmaceuticals and Teva Pharmaceutical, which is one of the world’s largest generic-drug manufacturers.
All the defendants allegedly created illegitimate demand for opioids while “unlawfully increasing the supply of opioids to meet that demand” and “worked together to inflate the supply and demand for opioids,” the lawsuit says.
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