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CHARLESTON – Attorneys representing Cabell County and the City of Huntington probed a McKesson sales representative on warning customers of nearing threshold limits, pushing increases and pushing sales – including controlled substances.  Huntington and Cabell County sued the nation's three largest pharmaceutical distribution companies – AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson – 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 hospita...

CHARLESTON — Emails between McKesson employees showed the drug firm’s directors would sometimes approve 80 pharmacy requests to increase opioid shipment limits per day, all while the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2008 reported finding 4,600 suspicious order violations within the corporation. Testimony over the communication was heard Monday at a federal trial born out of Cabell County and Huntington’s accusations the “Big Three” drug wholesalers — AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson — fueled the region’s opioid crisis by sending an exce...