CHARLESTON – As the landmark federal opioid trial entered its fourth week, plaintiffs jumped into McKesson Corporation’s threshold guidelines and due diligence process.
During testimony on May 24, McKesson Corp. Director of Regulatory Affairs Michael Oriente testified that the Controlled Substance Monitoring Program was being developed as he transitioned into the DRA position.
Under CSMP, a threshold system was created for all schedule two through five substances. Oriente said customers only were permitted to receive up to the threshold number and then they would be blocked. McKesson had a three-level review process to determine if the order was suspicious. Faber
McKesson distribution centers are sectioned into four districts and have five DRA positions, according to Oriente.
CHARLESTON – As the landmark federal opioid trial nears the end of its third week, testimony focused on Cardinal Health’s acknowledgement and regulations related to excessive controlled substance ordering.
The City of Huntington and Cabell County filed suit against three pharmaceutical distribution companies – AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson – in 2017 seeking to hold the companies accountable for their alleged part in the opioid epidemic by sending more than 540,000 opioids each month to independent and chain pharmacies – excluding hospitals and/or hospital pharmacies – located in Cabell County.
On May 20, Michael Fuller, one of the lawyers representing Cabell County, resumed questioning of Michael Mone´, Cardinal Health s former vice president of anti-diversion. Mone´, a licensed pharmacist and lawyer, was employed by the distributor between 2006 and 2012 starting with Cardinal’s subdivision, Medicine Shoppe.
CHARLESTON – As the landmark opioid trial continues, lawyers brought in a former AmerisourceBergen’s sales executive to ask what he knew about more than 32 million prescription pain pills being shipped to Huntington and the rest of Cabell County over an eight-year span.
The City of Huntington and the Cabell County Commission sued three of the nation’s top pharmaceutical distribution companies – AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson – in 2017 seeking compensation over claims the companies helped fuel the opioid epidemic by sending more than 81 million controlled substances to the county between 2006 and 2014.
On May 19, defense attorney Eric Kennedy called Michael Perry, a retired AmerisourceBergen (ABDC) sales executive of about 40 years. Perry did direct sales that included all pharmaceuticals and other-the-counter medications to pharmacies with territories varying in eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Perry testified that he had roughly 65-
CHARLESTON – As the federal trial against three major opioid distributors continued, data showing pharmacies in Huntington and Cabell County were ordering well above the national average of controlled substances, some ordering more than five times the national average.
Cabell County and the City of Huntington sued the three largest pharmaceutical distribution companies – AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson Corp. – in 2017 claiming the companies were largely responsible for the opioid crisis after the companies shipped more than 81 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to the county of just 100,000 residents between 2006 and 2014.
At the start of the May 18 testimony, officials from AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health objected to the number of documents the plaintiffs were presenting for possible use during examination the previous evening, stating it was unfair that the plaintiffs did not give a subset list of the known documents to be used during questi
CHARLESTON – The program director for Huntington s Quick Response Team and Cabell EMS employee testified during the first federal trial against the “Big Three” opioid distributors over their role in the drug crisis that Cabell County does have data tying prescription drug use to illegal drug use, and to an overwhelming impact of the drug crisis on the community and first responders.
Meanwhile, the drug distributors – McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health – sought to put the focus on the role of prescribers, as well as health officials decision not to go after distributors earlier.
The City of Huntington and Cabell County sued the distributors in 2017 over their role in the overdose crisis, after more than 80 million doses of the drugs were sent to the area in an eight-year period.