CVS Health is being accused by the U.S. Justice Department of filling illegal prescriptions to gain profit and reach ...

Officials said he voluntarily surrendered his DEA licenses and agreed to a 20-year exclusion from Medicare, Medicaid and all ...

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CVS is being sued by the Department of Justice for allegedly filling prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances ...

Trinity prescriptions are a "dangerous and abused" cocktail of drugs made up of an opioid, a benzodiazepine (a depressant drug) and a muscle relaxant. In a statement emailed to USA TODAY ...

In essence, it accuses CVS of understaffing its pharmacies to such an extent that pharmacists and technicians could not ensure they were filling opioid prescriptions properly. Additionally, it accuses ...

Each of the prescriptions in question was for an FDA-approved opioid medication prescribed by a practitioner who the government itself licensed, authorized and empowered to write controlled ...

Express Scripts, CVS Caremark and Optum Rx, the three top companies, "oversee prescriptions for more ... Even as the opioid epidemic swept the nation, these companies "collected ever-growing ...

The complaint was unsealed last week in Providence, R.I. In essence, it accuses CVS of understaffing its pharmacies to such an extent that pharmacists and technicians could not ensure they were ...