Walmart's Whimsical Suit Against the DOJ

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Walmart has filed suit against Attorney General William Barr, the Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the DEA’s acting head, Timothy Shea “in an attempt to strike a pre-emptive blow against what it said is an impending opioid-related civil lawsuit from the Justice Department” (WSJ). In a notable instance of pot calling kettle calling pot black drama,* the company asks a federal court, in essence, to declare that the DOJ is a hypocrite. “Blaming pharmacists for not second-guessing the very doctors [the Drug Enforcement Administration] approved to prescribe opioids is a transparent attempt to shift blame from DEA's well-documented failures in keeping bad doctors from prescribing opioids in the first place, says Walmart.” (* For a deep dive, please see Why do we blame big pharma and not the DEA or FDA?)