transactions and recreate exactly what happened. the same thing applies with the dea s database. there s literally hundreds of millions of transactions.o if there s no feasible way for the dea to monitor and clear them as they go through. but what they are able to do is go backwards in time. what we ve done in this litigation is we ve been able to get access to the entire database, go back in time and identify which communities were flooded. tucker: we know a lot of those who were ohio and west virginia, asho you said. if you re a drug company and your spending millions and millions of opioid tablets to a single small county in west virginia, say, you have to know what s going on, don t you? you would think so. what i want to make clear is that this wasn t an isolatedn event. this happened all over theth country. for instance, i looked up you want to trinity college in
transactions and recreate exactly what happens. the same thing applies with the dea s database. there are literally hundreds of millions of transactions. there is no feasible way for the dea to monitor and clear them as they go through. but what they are able to do is go backwards in time. what we ve done in this litigation, is we have been able to get access to the entire database, go back in time, and identify which communities were flooded. tucker: well, we know a lot of those were in ohio and west virginia, as you said. if you are a drug company and you are sending millions and millions and millions of opioid tablets to a single small county in westridge and west virginiae to know what s going on, don t you? this wasn t an isolated event. this happens all over the country. like, for instance, i looked up,
but these companies, despite some responsibility for this epidemic, have avoided all responsibilities so far and it s not because they re not guilty. directly fueled addiction by flooding towns by massive amounts of angles. many? an attorney represents several communities and assuming pharmaceutical companies and joins us for some perspective. thanks a lot for coming on. thanks for having me. mark: some perspective, when we read this or that drug company flooded a community with opioid tablets, what does that mean? i think it started in 2016 when the charleston gazette, a local newspaper, reported 780 million opioid pills were distributed in west virginia during a year window. we only have 1.8 million residents in our state. so that data comes from a
into a big complaint, a suit, perdue pharmaceuticals, johnson & johnson, a whole bunch of names they say knowingly prescribed, distributed, and sold way too many pills. a couple examples. walgreens in the cup plaint, it says they sold dispensed 2.2 million tablets from a store in a town with a population of 12,000. 2.2 million opioid tablets. another case of a town of 3,000, where 285,000 pills a month were distributed from a walgreens. and cvs, a little less precise, but on cvs, they also say there were way too many pills. humanly impossible for floridians to consume that many pills. here s what cvs says. we believe the state of florida s addition of cvs pharmacy to this lawsuit is without merit. cvs is dedicated to reducing drug abuse and diversion. and they have showned how they