Two counties in Ohio were flooded with millions of prescription painkiller pills as the opioid crisis exploded across the U.S. and now want major national pharmacy chains held accountable. MarkGillispie1.
has cost each of the financially struggling counties at least $1 billion. Now those counties want major national pharmacy chains that were involved in much of that distribution to pay.
“People need to realize that drug addiction is a family disease, and everyone in the family is affected by it,” said Sharon Grover, whose daughter died after becoming addicted to prescription pain pills and then heroin. “I’m never going to be the same.” Attempts at rehabilitation in Ohio and Florida failed. Realini was found dead at her home in April 2017 from a fentanyl overdose, an autopsy showed. No other drugs were found in her system.
Jim Misocky, an attorney and special projects coordinator in Trumbull County, along with Lake County Administrator Jason Boyd, said the ongoing opioid crisis has been a burden financially. They cited increased costs for their courts, jails, foster care, law enforcement and addiction treatment Trumbull County has had to hire a part-time pathologist in the county coroner’s office, Misocky said. When the county morgue fills up, bodies are sent to Cleveland or Lake County for autopsies.“That’s an issue we hear about continuously,” he said. “‘Where are we going to treat these people?’”
“The evidence presented at trial will show not only that CVS met the legal requirements for distributing prescription opioid medications in Lake and Trumbull Counties, but that it exceeded them,” attorneys for the company wrote.
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