The lawsuit accuses Rite Aid of informally incentivizing and pressuring pharmacists to recklessly fill opioid prescriptions regardless of their validity and even if they were clearly unnecessary or dangerous.
Rite Aid also was part of the case, but it settled for an undisclosed amount with the counties prior to the trial.
Federal and state laws require pharmacies to review prescriptions to ensure they’re being prescribed for the right reasons and that they’re medically necessary. “Even senior Rite Aid managers felt that its focus on its metrics forced its pharmacists to ‘rush past’ any red flags and fill prescriptions anyway,” according to the lawsuit.
“Rather than act to curb the causes of pill mills and opioid abuse that Rite Aid knew was occurring at a breathtaking pace, Rite Aid chose not to undertake and/or failed to undertake the measures it was capable of taking,” the lawsuit said. Some examples included a Jackson Township doctor who prescribed 1.9 million opioid doses in two years and was sentenced to 113 years in prison and an Akron obstetrician who prescribed opioids at such an alarming rate that area pharmacies, except for Rite Aid, refused to fill his prescriptions, according to the lawsuit. Eight of the Akron doctor’s patients died from overdoses, and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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