[Companies respond to previously unreleased DEA data about opioid sales]Plaintiffs have long accused drug manufacturers and wholesalers of fueling the opioid epidemic by producing and distributing billions of pain pills while making billions of dollars. AmerisourceBergen derided the release of the ARCOS data, saying it “offers a very misleading picture” of the problem. As more and more towns and cities became inundated by pain pills, they fought back. One store in Brighton, Colo., population 38,000, was ordering 2,000 pain pills per day. Between 2008 and 2011, Cardinal sold 2.2 million pills to one of the stores.

Source: Washington Post July 17, 2019 00:20 UTC