In 2010, a CVS pharmacy in Sanford ordered 1.8 million Oxycodone pills, an average of 137,994 pills a month. DEA investigators noted that “approximately every third car that came through the drive-thru lane had prescriptions for oxycodone or hydrocodone.” Most of the drugs were prescribed by “pill mill” doctors who became targets of a DEA investigation. At the current time, CVS was ordered to stop dispensing Schedule II narcotics by the DEA, but later appeals courts rulings have either upheld CVS’s appeal, or reissued the DEA order. The case continues to be litigated.
OMG, I’m stunned at those S-II numbers. That should have raised *red flags* in CVS’ computer system, immediately. It must have looked like “odd-even gas line” days back in the 70s, in their drive-thru windows.