DEA's failure to punish distributor blamed in opioid crisis raises revolving door questions
Thursday, May 25, 2023
SHREVEPORT, La. -- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed one of the nation's largest wholesale drug distributors to keep shipping highly addictive painkillers for nearly four years after a judge recommended it be stripped of its license for its "cavalier disregard" of thousands of suspicious orders fueling the opioid crisis.
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