- CVS Health (CVS -0.5%) settles the case brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) concerning allegations related to the over-dispensing of oxycodone by two CVS stores in Sanford, Florida. The company agreed to pay $22M to resolve the matter.
- In 2012, the DEA banned the two pharmacies from selling controlled drugs calling them an "imminent danger" to the public. The average pharmacy in the U.S. ordered ~69K oxycodone pills from wholesalers in 2011. The two pharmacies in question, located about five miles apart, ordered more than 3M.