A retired high-ranking official with the Drug Enforcement Administration has testified that three large opioid distributors had a "systematic failure'' in
CHARLESTON — Opioid distributor companies and a retired DEA official pointed the finger at each other during a trial in Charleston on Wednesday, stating their counterparts were unclear in communication,
CHARLESTON Fingers were pointed and blame was thrown all around a federal courtroom as a retired Drug Enforcement Administration official and attorneys for three drug distributors butted heads for a second full day of testimony.
Joe Rannazzisi, the former director of the DEA’s Office of Diversion Control, was under cross-examination for the entirety of June 9’s testimony by attorneys for AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson.
Huntington and Cabell County sued the nation s three largest pharmaceutical distribution companies in 2017 seeking to hold the companies accountable for their alleged part in the opioid epidemic by sending more than 540,000 opioids each month to independent and chain pharmacies – excluding hospitals and/or hospital pharmacies – located in Cabell County.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) Opioid distribution companies and federal regulators pointed the finger at each other as a contributing factor in the nation’s opioid epidemic during a landmark civil trial in West Virginia. A former Drug Enforcement Administration official and the distributors each argued Wednesday that the other side disregarded requests to comply with regulations […]