The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced its intervention in a lawsuit alleging retail pharmacy chain Rite Aid filled hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for medically unnecessary oxycodone and other opioids in violation of multiple federal laws.
The agency’s complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, alleges from at least May 2014 through June 2019, Rite Aid pharmacists “filled at least hundreds of thousands of unlawful prescriptions for controlled substances that were medically unnecessary, lacked a medically accepted indication, or were not issued in the usual course of professional practice.”
