Kentucky AG sues CVS Health over US state’s opioid epidemic

Kentucky’s attorney general on Wednesday accused CVS Health’s pharmacy chain – one of the largest in the United States – of flooding the state with prescription opioids.

Kentucky’s attorney general on Wednesday sued CVS Health, accusing its pharmacy chain of flooding the United States state with prescription opioids that contributed to the state’s addiction woes. Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed the lawsuit in Franklin County Circuit Court, saying the healthcare company played a role in “fueling the crisis” by inundating the state with millions of doses of powerful prescription painkillers. “As both distributor and pharmacy, CVS was in a unique position to monitor and stop the peddling of these highly-addictive drugs from their stores, yet they ignored their own safeguard systems,” Cameron said in a news release.