Cabell Countian News Today

CHARLESTON — A drug wholesale firm accused of fueling the opioid crisis could change its monthly pill shipment thresholds fluidly so it did not have to report large orders to its regulator, an AmerisourceBergen Drug Co. executive testified Tuesday. ABDC’s Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Steve Mays testified to the system at the questioning of Cabell County attorney Paul T. Farrell Jr. on Tuesday at the Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse in Charleston during a trial before U.S. Distri...

SafeScript Pharmacies #6, is pictured on Feb. 20, 2012, in downtown Huntington. The target of a federal investigation, an analytics expert testified at a trial Monday against opioid wholesalers that prior to the pharmacys closure, AmerisourceBergen had been shipping it an average of 35,500 oxycodone doses a month, about seven times the national average.