as president of cvs pharmacy,
foulkes pocketed millions while thousands died of opioid overdoses
as president of cvs pharmacy,
foulkes pocketed millions while thousands died of opioid overdoses
According to federal prosecutors, under her watch CVS repeatedly refused to implement available procedures...because it wanted to keep raking in profits1
Helena foulkes profited from the opioid crisis
She can't be trusted to lead
Helena foulkes profited from the opioid crisis
She can't be trusted to lead
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What Helena Foulkes Said Versus Reality
What Helena Foulkes Said Versus Reality
“We confronted this crisis head-on”
Prosecutors say CVS executives, like Foulkes, repeatedly refused to implement available procedures to prevent or diminish illegal dispensing because they did not want to reduce sales...2
"A lot of people missed this, and I do wish we'd all found it sooner."
Prosecutors say CVS executives, like Foukles, knew that they had the ability to slow, stop—or, by contrast, encourage—the stream of invalid prescriptions by their policies...3
"As soon as we saw what was going on, we took action, I took action”
Prosecutors say year after year, CVS executives like Foulkes made decisions to choose profits over legal compliance and prioritized volume and speed over care and safety, ignoring desperate pleas from their own pharmacists for help...4
“I put particular blame on Perdue Pharma”
...between October 17, 2013, and the present, CVS pharmacists were ordered to knowingly fill at least thousands of unlawful prescriptions for controlled substances. CVS filled these prescriptions knowing that the...prescriptions...were issued by prescribers CVS knew to be engaged in pill mill practices...5
GoLocal Prov, 1/21/2025
DOJ complaint, p. 43
DOJ complaint, p. 43
DOJ complaint, p. 43
DOJ complaint, p. 49