Walgreens will pay $7.5 million to settle allegations that for more than a decade it let an unlicensed pharmacist handle hundreds of thousands of prescriptions, including some for highly addictive painkillers, the authorities in California said on Monday, another setback for a company already facing broader accusations that it helped feed the opioid epidemic. She was never licensed by the state pharmacy board as required by law, the authorities said. “Their lives may depend on it.”The authorities discovered that Ms. Le did not have a license during a state pharmacy board audit in 2017. Le falsely impersonated Walgreens pharmacists and used a license of someone who had the same first name, the authorities have said.

Source: New York Times February 04, 2020 21:22 UTC