Was It Reasonable To Ship 81 Million Opioid Pills To This Small West Virginia City?
Friday, July 30, 2021
A pedestrian walks past a mural in Huntington, W.Va., on March 18. Huntington was once ground zero for the U.S. opioid epidemic.
David Goldman / AP
The outcome of a landmark federal opioid trial in West Virginia that reached closing arguments this week rests on two legally thorny questions.
Was it unreasonable for three of America s biggest corporations the drug wholesalers AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson to ship roughly 81 million highly addictive opioid pills to pharmacies in one small Rust Belt city on the Ohio River?
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