November 6, 2023

One of Puerto Rico’s largest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs, Droguería Betances LLC has been ordered to pay $12 million following a DOJ complaint that it failed to report hundreds of suspicious ordered to the DEA.  According to the complaint, the suspicious orders included at least 655 for fentanyl and 113 for oxycodone.  Additionally, Betances committed recordkeeping violations by filling orders for these drugs using defective order forms and reporting inaccurate shipping and delivery information to the DEA.  Betances must now make extensive improvements to its compliance program.  DOJ

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