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West Virginia sues Rite-Aid, Walgreens over pain pill flood

by Associated Press
| June 5, 2020 12:03 AM

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Rite-Aid and Walgreens failed to monitor and report suspicious orders of prescription painkillers in West Virginia while inundating their retail pharmacies with tens of millions of pills, according to a state lawsuit.

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