{"id":79346,"date":"2025-08-18T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79346\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:41:11","slug":"w-va-announces-lawsuit-against-express-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79346\/","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":79347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,48049,84,377,48044,47623,48050,48047,48046,48045,48048],"class_list":["post-79346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-express-scripts","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-opioid-crisis","tag-pbm","tag-pharamcy-benefit-manager","tag-wchs","tag-wowk","tag-wsaz","tag-wvah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}