CVS admits selling meth ingredient

CVS admits selling meth ingredient
CVS Pharmacy Inc. agreed to pay a record $ 77.6 million penalty after admitting that its stores in Orange County and elsewhere allowed drug traffickers to purchase illegal amounts of pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in the manufacture of…
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CVS to pay M penalty for sales of meth ingredient
For more than a year, CVS Pharmacy Inc. was more than a neighborhood drugstore in Southern California and at least four other states. Federal authorities say it was the place of choice for would-be criminals known as “smurfers” to buy a key ingredient used to cook batches of the highly addictive drug methamphetamine.
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