CHARLESTON — A despairing story told through emails, investigation reports and pill data during testimony in the third week of a federal opioid trial showed how, after a problematic Huntington
CHARLESTON — Data and details from employee emails mocking Appalachians highlighted the second week of the federal trial in Huntington and Cabell County’s case claiming three drug companies fueled the
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.