CVS Subpoenaed in NFL Class Action Drug Suit
Thursday, December 04, 2014
CVS has been subpoenaed in a class action lawsuit involving over 1,300 former National Football League players regarding the use of prescription painkillers, according to the Washington Post.
On November 27, the Washington Post's Sally Jenkins and Rick Maese wrote about the ongoing federal investigation into NFL painkilling practices that was "triggered by the class action lawsuit filed in federal court in May, in which more than 1,300 former players said NFL medical staffs routinely violated federal and state laws in plying them with powerful narcotics to mask injuries on game days."
CVS Cited
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTIn the article Jenkins and Maese noted, "On Oct. 24, lawyers for the plaintiffs filed a discovery motion that included reference to a subpoena issued to CVS Pharmacy, seeking information about alleged irregularities in prescriptions filled for the Miami Dolphins “in the name of team trainer(s) as the ‘patient(s)" and that a CVS corporate spokesperson "declined to comment or furnish any additional information on the subpoena."
Jenkins and Maese continued, "According to law enforcement sources, investigators are focused less on individuals than on a broad range of alleged illegal dispensation practices in the NFL, which may facilitate addictions, abuses and pill trafficking."
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