Rite Aid Must Face Justice Department’s Opioid Allegations (1)

Rite Aid Corp. is facing US Justice Department claims that it intentionally filled unlawful prescriptions for opioid painkillers as part of a whistleblower case over the sales.

Over a five-year period starting in 2014, Rite Aid pharmacists filled hundreds of thousands of opioid prescriptions that weren’t written for “a medically accepted indication” in violation of federal drug laws, federal prosecutors said Monday in a court filing.

The government is intervening in 2019 lawsuit filed by two Rite Aid pharmacists from North Carolina, Andrew White and Mark Rosenberg, who accused the chain of dispensing opioids without valid prescriptions or “outside the ...