The Justice Department accused Rite Aid of filling hundreds of thousands of illegal prescriptions over the years.
The U.S. government is suing Rite Aid, alleging that the pharmacy chain missed “obvious red flags” and illegally filled hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for controlled substances, including opioids.
The Justice Department complaint states that from 2014 to 2019, Rite Aid pharmacists knowingly filled prescriptions that were “medically unnecessary,” prescribed off-label, or “were not issued in the usual course of professional practice.”
The complaint says pharmacists ignored red flags like “trinities” of opioids, benzodiazepines and muscle relaxants, plus “early fills” of prescriptions that should not yet have
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