TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 23, 2020

A new report from the Knoxville News Sentinel gives a detailed account of the role Tennessee’s pharmacies have played in the opioid epidemic. The report pulls from a lawsuit against AmerisourceBergen brought by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, which alleges the Pennsylvania opioid distributor took part in deliberate drug trafficking and racketeering by shipping unreasonable amounts of opioids to distributors. According to the report, the lawsuit identifies Walgreens and Food City pharmacies for helping flood the black market with opiates and fueling a deadly epidemic. The suit was filed in Knox County Circuit Court on Oct. 3 and made public last month after the Knoxville News Sentinel’s lawsuit to release the records.