Kentucky sues Express Scripts, alleging it helped fuel state's opioid crisis

Kentucky’s attorney general is suing the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts over its role in “worsening” the state’s opioid crisis. 

In the complaint filed in state court, Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) argued Express Scripts “is at the center of” the opioid dispensing chain that helped fuel the crisis. 

Coleman claimed the company and its affiliates colluded with manufacturers in deceptive marketing practices to increase opioid sales. He said Express Scripts...