Walgreens has paid about $ 300 million, and announced Monday that pharmaceutical companies will illegally solve the case of illegally filling up millions of wrong prescriptions for opioids and other control substances.
Dissatisfaction with the US District Court on the northern Illinois on January 16 was a pharmacist headquartered in Dearfield, Illinois.
This agreement must pay Walgreens to $ 300 million and 4%in the next few years. According to the Ministry of Justice, the contract, which has reached Friday, resolves the four cases filed by the internal employee hired by the company. Walgreens announced that if the company sales, merger or transferred before the 2032 fiscal year, the company would owe an additional $ 50 million.
According to the website, Walgreens is one of the largest pharmacy chains in the United States, with more than 8,000 stores in the United States and Puerto Rico. According to the Ministry of Justice, the consensus is based on the company’s ability to pay.
Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement that “pharmacies are legally responsible to prescribe controlled materials in a safe and professional manner, and they do not distribute dangerous drugs for profits.”
Federal complaints (Federal dissatisfaction to be deleted by agreement) argued that despite the clear ‘timely’, despite the clear ‘timely’ that was not issued in a general professional practice process, Walgreens pharmacists said that they had written a prescription.
The federal submission also insisted that Walgreens put pressure on employees to promptly write a prescription by spending time to confirm that each prescription is legal. In addition, the company’s compliance officials insisted that they ignored “practical evidence” that distributed illegal prescriptions.
A lawyer in the eastern part of New York said in a statement on Monday, “This agreement is responsible for Walgreens for not supporting important responsibilities to prevent the change of opioids and other controlled materials.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the consensus is to train employees every year in connection with the responsibility of the controlled material and to maintain a system for blocking prescriptions from the prescriber, according to the Ministry of Justice.
The company’s pharmacist should also “confirm the effectiveness of the prescription” before distributing the control material.
Walgreens spokesman Fraser Engerman said in a statement that sent an e -mail to Newsday, “We are not strongly agreeing with the government’s legal theories, and our pharmacist is deeply interested in patient safety and educational to help Opioid misuse and abuse throughout our country. I am a dedicated medical professional who plays an important role in providing resources. “
Engerman said, “This resolution allows you to close all opioids with the Federal, State and Local governments.
