CHARLESTON, WV (LOOTPRESS) — West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey has filed a lawsuit against Express Scripts (now Evernorth Health) and related entities, alleging the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) played a central role in the widespread oversupply of opioids to West Virginia, destroying countless lives and leaving our state decimated by a man-made medical crisis.

“The opioid crisis is a direct result of greed and evil. Opioid manufacturers have been held accountable, now it’s time for others who illegally profited behind the scenes to pay the price,” Attorney General McCuskey said. “PBMs, like Express Scripts, not only fueled the crisis through their formulary placements of the pills, but they had every tool at their disposal to alert them to how addictive and destructive opioids

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