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Couple ran $60M prescription drug scheme
Authorities have broken up a prescription drug "diversion" scheme operating out of Nashville that sold nearly $60 million in secondhand pills to pharmacies nationwide, pawning them off as new medicines fresh from the manufacturers. The scheme was allegedly operated through a company called Cumberland Distribution Inc., which ran drug warehouses in Nashville and was licensed by the state of Tennessee as a wholesale distributor of prescription drugs.
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So, people were at risk for those problems, but no problems were documented to actually have occurred.
Sort of curious that car dealerships do this every day of the week and it's A-OK.
In order to determine if any individuals were harmed by tainted drugs, they would have to track every customer through every pharmacy that they sold through. People taking drugs tend to not be healthy, some have probably died, and they would then have to determine whether they died due to the medicine being tainted or impotent.
I'm willing to bet they didn't hunt down those people. The pharmacies in question are victims of the original crime, yes, but it would open them up to massive liability in the case that anyone did die.
They don't know if there were problems because they don't know who got them, and the people who got them were already sick.