[Pharmwaste] AK Court forces "excessive & suspicious" opioid sales to continue.

[Ed Gottlieb]

"WASHINGTON — For a year, lawmakers here have made bogeymen of pharmaceutical wholesalers, accusing the corporations of accelerating the opioid crisis by callously dumping addictive pain drugs into small towns that didn’t need them. But now, a federal court is flipping the script.

The U.S. District Court in Alaska ruled this month that the drug distributor AmerisourceBergen must continue to ship opioids to a pharmacy in Anchorage, Alaska, even though the distributor itself flagged the orders as excessive and suspicious."



I don't have access to the full story (subscription required) or the time to research why the court would do this.

Anyone know the story?



https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/31/amerisourcebergen-alaska-opioids-ruling/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=528a3e70f4-Daily_Recap&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-528a3e70f4-149620549



Ed Gottlieb
Chair, Tompkins County Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal
Committee
Member, Tompkins County Water Resources Council
Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator
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