Federal officials have indicted two former executives at the pharmaceutical wholesaler Miami-Luken for allegedly distributing millions of opioid pills illegally in rural Appalachia. Two pharmacists have also been charged, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio.
Miami-Luken supplied opiate painkillers like oxycodone and hydrocodone to over 200 pharmacies in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Tennessee, according to the Justice Department. DOJ alleges the drug company should've flagged suspicious orders for the Drug Enforcement Agency but instead sold an enormous amount of drugs to communities that were already reeling from the opioid crisis.
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