Walgreens ordered to pay $300M for filling illegal opioid prescriptions

  • By Laura Lyon
  • | 2:45 p.m. April 22, 2025
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Illinois-based national pharmacy chain Walgreens has been ordered by the Department of Justice to pay $300 million in fines for illegally filling invalid opioid prescriptions.

 

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