As per recent reports, it has been claimed that two local CVS stores are now the country’s first pharmacies whose licenses have been suspended for making sale of surplus painkillers such as oxycodone.

For each oxycodone tablet prescribed by the pharmacy on average, agents claimed that the stores raided by them were found selling 14 times more drugs than the said amount.

To open the details of the case, it was found that the average store sells around 69,000 oxycodone tablets on a yearly basis. Revealing the incident, investigators claimed that the two Sanford sites raided by them during the course of their investigation were found selling two million oxycodone medicines every year.

While the investigators avoiding briefing much of the information, they claimed that the CVS must be having known that they were getting involved into more than allowed quantity of prescriptions.

One of the stores in concern is operational on West First Street off Rinehart Road, while the other is located at Orlando Drive close to Lake Mary Boulevard. The supplier of oxycodone to the stores has revealed that the Lakeland-based Cardinal Health had also been suspended from making any further sale of these sorts of medicines.

While expressing his opinion regarding the entire issue, Mark Trouville, the DEA Special Agent, said: “The DEA has not, doesn’t not and will not ever target doctors, or pharmacists, or pharmacies. The DEA targets drug dealers. The DEA is in the job of making sure that the medicine goes where it is supposed to go”.

In the meantime, a statement released by CVS has claimed that they are entirely lending a hand of cooperation to the DEA. The firm also added that they have made efforts to reduce the sales of oxycodone by more than 80% during the last three months.