About a year and half ago, a small San Antonio pharmacy found itself in Bexar County’s crosshairs, targeted because of the huge amount of pain pills it dispensed. A lawyer for the county dubbed it a “pill mill.” So Trinity Pharmacies LLC was added to a 2018 lawsuit targeting drug manufacturers, a distributor and various retailers that officials said were fueling the opioid addiction crisis sweeping the San Antonio area.
San Antonio pharmacy to pay $275K penalty for allegedly illegally prescribing opioids The bankruptcy puts the county’s lawsuit against Trinity on hold. But the filing under a subchapter of the bankruptcy code designed for small-business debtors is part of a larger legal strategy its owners hope will eventually do away with the causes of action against it.