At Knuckleheads Bar & Grill, the subject on a sweltering Saturday afternoon was the drug crisis. More specifically, the recent disclosure that the pharmacy CVS across the street received more pain pills - 6.4 million - over a seven-year period than any other drugstore in Cuyahoga County.
Barring a settlement, the two counties are scheduled to go to trial in October as the first case among the consolidated lawsuits brought by about 2000 cities, counties, Native American tribes and other plaintiffs. "In the period of time covered by the ARCOS data , our shipments of hydrocodone combination products comprised only 2 per cent of the prescription drugs we shipped to our pharmacies," he said.
As the government cracked down on the diversion of pills to the black market, heroin and fentanyl took their place. By March 2016, two people died of a heroin or fentanyl overdose in Cuyahoga County every day, the lawyers alleged. "We maintain stringent policies, procedures and tools to help ensure that our pharmacists properly exercise their professional responsibility to evaluate controlled substance prescriptions before filling them," DeAngelis, the CVS spokesman, said on Sunday.
The state asked a judge to make the company pay as much as $17.5 billion over 30 years to clean up the drug crisis. Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman said he would rule around the end of August. The pharmacist on duty at the CVS on Saturday declined to comment on the volume of pills sold there, citing company policy.
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