A Walgreens at Fourth and Market streets. The City filed a federal lawsuit against the pharmacy chain, as well pharmaceutical manufacturers Allergan and Teva and distributor Anda for making, distributing and overseeing prescription opioids.
Manufacturers, distributions and dispensers of prescription opioids violated California’s public nuisance law by flooding The City with opioids and creating a health emergency, the San Francisco City Attorney is alleging on behalf of the People of the State of California. Deaths involving opioids have dramatically increased across the U.S. in recent years. From 2013 to 2019, overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone increased by about 1,040%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The largest increase in opioid-related deaths occurred on the West Coast.
Nearly 80% of heroin users in the U.S. started with opioid prescriptions, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine. A federal trial in Ohio found CVS, Walgreens and Walmart liable for fueling the opioid crisis in Lake and Trumbull Counties in Ohio in November 2021. Next month, a judge will determine the amount of abatement funds that the pharmacies will owe the Ohio communities.
blame Chesa Boudin.. he kills 60 folks per day in SF
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