{"id":77848,"date":"2025-08-18T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77848\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:46:07","slug":"w-va-announces-lawsuit-against-express-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77848\/","title":{"rendered":"W.Va. announces lawsuit against Express Scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) &#8212; West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey has announced a lawsuit against what he calls an \u201carchitect\u201d of the opioid crisis in West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The lawsuit, filed on Friday, is against Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit manager organization in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McCuskey says the company played a pivotal role in the crisis, enabled the widespread supply of opioids, and worked to keep its role obscure from the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During a press conference Monday, McCuskey claimed Express Scripts fueled an opioid crisis from behind the scenes while projecting an image of public concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Express Scripts is accused of conspiring with opioid manufacturers as well as securing preferred formulary placement for opioids, which thereby incentivized the prescription of opioids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Keep checking the WSAZ App for the latest information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WSAZ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) &#8212; West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey has announced a lawsuit against what he calls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,59580,137,490,59575,59160,59581,59578,59577,59576,59579],"class_list":{"0":"post-77848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-express-scripts","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-medication","13":"tag-opioid-crisis","14":"tag-pbm","15":"tag-pharamcy-benefit-manager","16":"tag-wchs","17":"tag-wowk","18":"tag-wsaz","19":"tag-wvah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}