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The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its charges against the remaining defendants in a case accusing a defunct drug distributor, two of its executives and two pharmacists of colluding to flood small towns in Appalachia with highly addictive painkillers, after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made such cases harder to prove.
It was an important piece of evidence — a 324-page congressional report that slammed the nation’s largest prescription drug distributors for their role in fueling the opioid crisis.
Landmark opioid case against Springboro firm continues two years later Kaitlin Schroeder © Provided by Dayton Daily News Miami-Luken has closed its distribution location at 265 S. Pioneer Blvd. Springboro. STAFF PHOTO A federal lawsuit accusing a Springboro company and several West Virginia pharmacies of fueling the opioid crisis continues nearly two years later, after COVID disruptions and several attempts by the defendants to have the case dismissed. The trial is currently scheduled for January 2022. The conspiracy charge against Springboro pharmaceutical distributor Miam...