OK - if the prosecution/plaintiff could prove that Walgreens (I assume this is not just against a single location, but the corporation) willfully and knowingly dispensed these drugs to obvious fake prescriptions... I might see a case.
But where is that proof in this? In fact - I might even question if a pharmacy even has the authority to just choose to ignore what appears to a reasonable eye to be a real prescription from a real doctor. Other than watching for known drug interaction/contradictions or giving patients instructions on the taking of medications that are new to them... I really don’t see it being Walgreens (or any other pharmacy’s) business.
There are TWO entities that ought to be in the crosshairs of these cases:
1 - Doctors who continued to prescribe (and over-prescribe) these opioid pain medications, particularly after it became glaringly obvious that they actually are extremely addictive and damaging in many ways to a patient’s health...
2- The pharmaceutical companies themselves (who seem to often get a free pass in this) - who submitted that these drugs were incapable of causing dependency (despite the family of chemicals they are synthetic analogs of are some of the most addictive substances on earth - opiates). Drug makers who swore under oath. Who submitted false study data, who paid huge amounts of money and went to amazing lengths to conceal the truth about them from both the public and the FDA (which itself was negligent in its approval of the drugs).
How about including the doctor shopping pill junkies as the primary cause