WALMART SUES U.S. GOVERNMENT TO SETTLE PHARMACIES' ROLE IN OPIOID CRISIS

Highlights

• Walmart in the suit says that the U.S. Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration has been making them a scapegoat to divert attention from the agencies' failures to handle the opioids crisis in the country

• Walmart's lawyers said Watchdog groups have meticulously cataloged the ways regulators have failed to safeguard the public from improper diversion of prescription opioids