Drugstore giant Walgreens “systematically” pushed pharmacists to quickly fill prescriptions with obvious red flags, helping drive unneccesary deaths and the opioid crisis, according to a lawsuit announced today from the Department of Justice.
The suit, filed Thursday in Illinois federal court, alleges that between 2012 and the present, Walgreens “knowingly filled millions of prescriptions for controlled substances that lacked a legitimate medical purpose,” according to the DOJ.
