NPR advances the Walmart/Opioid Crisis with testimony from former pharmacists who tried to warn corporate that something was wrong.
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Patients were driving long distances to buy their pills from Walmart. They couldn't explain why they needed such powerful opioid doses.
He started raising alarms, sending emails to his bosses in Michigan and to Walmart headquarters in Arkansas. He warned that their pharmacies were feeding a black market for opioids like Oxycontin.
What happened next made him angry. "They start putting more pressure on me to just be quiet and not to say anything more," Sheoran said.
"They told me, 'Do not reach out to the DEA, do not call the police. If you do so, your employment is going to be terminated immediately,' " Sheoran said, describing a warning he said was issued by his supervisor.