Rite Aid sued by US over repeated unlawful opioid prescriptions
One of the largest U.S. pharmacy chains has fueled a deadly opioid epidemic by illegally dispensing hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for a controlled substance, the Justice Department has alleged in a massive lawsuit. In a complaint filed Monday in Cleveland federal court, federal agencies found that between May and June 2014, an illegal prescription, […]
Arizona police, DEA seize huge quantity of opioid, other drugs in bust targeting powerful Sinaloa cartel
A joint investigation between police in Tempe, Arizona, and the DEA targeting drug cartels in Sinaloa, Mexico, resulted in 150 indictments and the seizure of millions of deadly fentanyl pills. At a press conference Thursday afternoon, law enforcement said investigators had found more than 4.5 million fentanyl tablets, 66 kilograms of fentanyl powder, 138 kilograms […]