This blog post is from the Wall Street Journal. It addresses whether a pharmacy in Nevada is liable for the actions of a patient who abused pharmacy drugs. The pharmacies in the area were sent a letter warning them of this particular woman. Does this knowledge hold them liable?
A lawsuit filed by the victims and their families against Wal-Mart, who dispensed a painkiller prescription to Copening, asks whether drugstores must use information at their disposal to protect the public from potentially dangerous customers. In this case, state officials had sent letters to 14 pharmacies in the Las Vegas area warning that Copening could be abusing drugs.
