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Transactions and recreate exactly what happened. the same thing applies with the dea's database. there's literally hundreds of millions of transactions.o if there's no feasible way for the dea to monitor and clear them as they go through. but what they are able to do is go backwards in time. what we've done in this litigation is we've been able to get access to the entire database, go back in time and identify which communities were flooded. >> tucker: we know a lot of those who were ohio and west virginia, asho you said. if you're a drug company and your spending millions and millions of opio...

Transactions and recreate exactly what happens. the same thing applies with the dea's database. there are literally hundreds of millions of transactions. there is no feasible way for the dea to monitor and clear them as they go through. but what they are able to do is go backwards in time. what we've done in this litigation, is we have been able to get access to the entire database, go back in time, and identify which communities were flooded. >> tucker: well, we know a lot of those were in ohio and west virginia, as you said. if you are a drug company and you are sending millions and millions...

But these companies, despite some responsibility for this epidemic, have avoided all responsibilities so far and it's not because they're not guilty. directly fueled addiction by flooding towns by massive amounts of angles. many? an attorney represents several communities and assuming pharmaceutical companies and joins us for some perspective. thanks a lot for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> mark: some perspective, when we read this or that drug company flooded a community with opioid tablets, what does that mean? >> i think it started in 2016 when the charleston gazette, a local newspa...

Into a big complaint, a suit, perdue pharmaceuticals, johnson & johnson, a whole bunch of names they say knowingly prescribed, distributed, and sold way too many pills. a couple examples. walgreens in the cup plaint, it says they sold -- dispensed 2.2 million tablets from a store in a town with a population of 12,000. >> 2.2 million opioid tablets. another case of a town of 3,000, where 285,000 pills a month were distributed from a walgreens. and cvs, a little less precise, but on cvs, they also say there were way too many pills. humanly impossible for floridians to consume that many pills. he...