A grocery-store pharmacy in Knoxville, Tenn., bought nearly one million high-dose OxyContin pills in 2008, third-most in the nation, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The Journal obtained the data from plaintiffs’ attorneys representing municipalities in lawsuits against Purdue and other pharmaceutical-supply-chain players for their alleged roles in the opioid crisis. Sales data for other years hasn’t been made public.
In the summer of 2008, local residents began complaining that the store’s parking lot had become a magnet for drugs and crime since the pharmacy began filling prescriptions for a nearby pain clinic, according to a local newspaper article.
The Journal obtained the data from plaintiffs’ attorneys representing municipalities in lawsuits against Purdue and other pharmaceutical-supply-chain players for their alleged roles in the opioid crisis. Sales data for other years hasn’t been made public.
In the summer of 2008, local residents began complaining that the store’s parking lot had become a magnet for drugs and crime since the pharmacy began filling prescriptions for a nearby pain clinic, according to a local newspaper article.
