By Lenny Bernstein, David S. Fallis, Scott Higham and Alice Crites, The Washington Post For 10 years, the government waged a behind-the-scenes war against pharmaceutical companies that hardly anyone knows: wholesale distributors of prescription narcotics that ship drugs from manufacturers to consumers. The Drug Enforcement Administration targeted these middlemen for a simple reason.
How Drugs Intended For Patients Ended Up In The Hands Of Illegal Users: ‘no One Was Doing Their Job’
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