Florida Suing CVS and Walgreens Over Opioid Sales Amid Growing Epidemic: 'Thousands of Floridians Have Suffered'
Photo: GettyFlorida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the state is suing CVS and Walgreens for allegedly overselling opioids asthe nationwide epidemic grows.The lawsuit accuses the two major drugstore chains of using “unfair and misleading marketing” to push doctors to overprescribe opioids for chronic pain in place of other treatments. The State of Florida also says that this “artificially inflated demand” led to quantities of opioids in the state that “could not possibly have been medically justified,”according to court documents....