In the civil lawsuit, the DOJ alleges that over the course of nearly a decade, from 2014 through the present, AmerisourceBergen Corporation and two of its subsidiaries violated the Controlled Substances Act by failing to report to the Drug Enforcement Agency at least hundreds of thousands of suspicious orders of controlled substances, as required by law.
The Department of Justice's lawsuit claims that AmerisourceBergen knowingly filled and failed to report numerous orders from pharmacies for perscription opioids that were then sold in illicit markets."Companies distributing opioids are required to report suspicious orders to federal law enforcement. Our complaint alleges that AmerisourceBergen — which sold billions of units of prescription opioids over the past decade — repeatedly failed to comply with that requirement," she said.
"The Department of Justice is committed to holding accountable those who fueled the opioid crisisby flouting the law," said Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta.The lawsuit also notes a Colorado pharmacy that AmerisourceBergen knew was its largest purchaser of oxycodone 30mg tablets in all of Colorado, identified 11 patients as potential"drug addicts" whose prescriptions likely were illegitimate, but ignored the red flags.
"With the vast quantity of information that AmerisourceBergen shared directly with the DEA with regards to these five pharmacies, the DEA still did not feel the need to take swift action itself – in fact, AmerisourceBergen terminated relationships with four of them before DEA ever took any enforcement action while two of the five pharmacies maintain their DEA controlled substance registration to this day," the company added.
The us government does not like competition
The DOJ NEEDS TO BE LOCKED UL FOR TREASON PERIOD
There goes capitalism.... just trying to make a buck on other's addiction
Can we sue the doj for allowing all the fentanyl to come over the border?
How about the government stopping the $100B of illegal narcotics coming from Mexico. It looks to me like they’re doing anything they can to help the cartels. Unbelievable.