As a result, they shirked their responsibility as the last line of defense between extraordinarily powerful and deadly drugs and the people seeking them. “For hundreds and hundreds of prescriptions, Seashore Drugs, Waggett, and King ignored the warning signs of illegality. Some customers who filled their opioid prescriptions at Seashore Drugs died from overdoses within days of receiving the pills.Īccording to the complaint, the defendants turned a blind eye to actions that violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
These prescriptions included oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone, along with drugs like Valium, Xanax, and carisoprodol, that, when taken with opioids, heighten their potential for abuse and adverse events, prosecutors stated in the complaint.įrom 2006 to 2012, Seashore Drugs sold a staggering 5.4 million pills and had one of the highest dispense rate of oxycodone and hydrocodone of any pharmacy in the Cape Fear region during that time frame, according to data from the Drug Enforcement Agency.ĭuring that time, the complaint alleged Seashore filled hundreds of prescriptions for well-known drug cocktails written by a prescriber who ultimately had his prescribing privileges suspended by the North Carolina Medical Board. Prosecutors said Seashore Drugs developed a reputation in the Wilmington pharmacy community as a place that “filled the prescriptions other pharmacies refused.” Specifically, prosecutors said King would fill prescriptions other Seashore pharmacists, who were no longer on shift, refused to fill. King II, the store’s pharmacist-in-charge, agreed to pay a $1.05 million civil penalty and are barred from “administering, dispensing, distributing, or possessing with intent to distribute, any kind of controlled substance.” The agreement is pending the approval of Judge Flanagan. Waggett, the owner of Seashore Drugs, and Billy W.
In a complaint filed in district court on Oct. Flanagan to shut down a Wilmington pharmacy that is accused of repeatedly ignoring numerous “red flags” as it sold millions of highly-addictive painkillers during the height of the opioid epidemic in the Cape Fear region. (WECT) - Federal prosecutors have asked U.S.
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