U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said, for more than a decade, Walgreens pharmacies in San Francisco dispensed hundreds of thousands of opioid prescriptions without performing enough due diligence.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Deerfield-based Walgreens can be held responsible for contributing to San Francisco's opioid crisis.
"Pharmacists were pressured to fill, fill, fill," he said,"and as a result, Walgreens filled our streets with opioids." A Walgreens spokesman said the chain is disappointed in the outcome, which he said is not supported by the facts and the law. Wednesday's ruling did not include a ruling on monetary damages, which will be determined in a future trial.
The city attorney's office says San Francisco saw a nearly 500% increase in opioid-related overdose deaths between 2015 and 2020 and that on a typical day, roughly a quarter of visits at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Emergency Department are opioid-related.
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