The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Rite Aid on Monday for knowingly filling dangerous and illegal prescriptions.
In the lawsuit, the government alleges that Rite Aid violated the Controlled Substances Act by filling opioid prescriptions with obvious red flags and repeatedly deleting messages about suspicious prescriptions.
Some Rite Aid pharmacists warned of the dangers of the company’s prescription practices, the lawsuit mentions one message titled “cash only pill mill???” Many of those internal messages were deleted however in an attempt to cover their tracks, the government alleges. The Justice Department says that these prescriptions lacked any medical purpose and “were not for a medically accepted indication, or were not issued in the usual course of professional practice.”
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