Morris & Dickson, one of the nation’s largest drug distributors, was sued over claims that it fed an addiction crisis within the Cherokee Nation by not stopping the suspicious shipment of millions of painkillers to a small number of Oklahoma pharmacies.
to reach a settlement. The revocation won’t be final for 90 days, so the company hasMorris & Dickson is asking a federal appeals court to put the revocation on hold, saying the legal procedure was unconstitutional. A decision is pending.
In its order, the DEA said Morris & Dickson maintained an inadequate system to monitor suspicious orders. During administrative testimony, the company’s president at the time, Paul Dickson Sr., said he did not think “a single person has gotten hurt” by their drugs. The order said Dickson’s comments were so off-base that they undercut the agency’s ability “to entrust the [company] with a registration.
Another twist: Morris & Dickson hired former DEA official Louis J. Milione as a consultant to help contest the DEA allegations. He returned to the DEA in 2021, and the agency says he has stepped away from issues related to Morris & Dickson. Some federal agencies have been criticized for not moving swiftly enough to stop companies that flooded the nation with prescription opioids, which have since been displaced by fentanyl as the catalyst for overdose deaths.
One pharmacy was in the small town of Roland, Okla. It has a population of less than 3,500 but received a staggering 774,370 pills in 2013 and 2014, the lawsuit said. Another pharmacy in the same town received 1.5 million pills between 2010 and 2014. According to the suit, the pharmacies were tied to a clinic that doled out prescriptions to patients traveling from 10 other states.
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