Walgreens Contributed to Opioid Crisis in San Francisco, Judge Rules.<br />Fox News reports that U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer made the ruling on Aug. 10.<br />Walgreens pharmacies in San Francisco dispensed hundreds of thousands of red flag opioid prescriptions without performing adequate due diligence. , U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, via ruling.<br />Tens of thousands of these prescriptions were written by doctors with suspect prescribing patterns, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, via ruling.<br />The evidence showed that Walgreens did not provide its pharmacists with sufficient time, staffing, or resources to perform due diligence on these prescriptions, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, via ruling.<br />"," Breyer added.<br />Judge Breyer also said that the increase in red-flag opioid scripts resulted in local hospitals being overwhelmed, .<br />playground being trashed with drugs...<br />... and city libraries being forced to shut down because of toilets clogged with syringes. .<br />Walgreens issued a statement denying the allegations.<br />We never manufactured or marketed opioids, nor did we distribute them to the ‘pill mills’ and internet pharmacies that fueled this crisis, Fraser Engerman, Walgreens spokesperson, via statement.<br />Monetary damages have yet to be determined.<br />According to the San Francisco health department, last year, 474 people died from fentanyl-related overdoses
