West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has filed lawsuits against Walmart and CVS, alleging the two opioid distributors should pay for helping create the state’s opioid epidemic and act to remediate what became a public health and financial crisis. The lawsuit allege that, as individual distributors, supplied far more opioids to their retail pharmacies than necessary to meet a legitimate market, and not even that was enough as the retail pharmacies ordered additional pills from other distributors to fulfill demand. Similar lawsuits have previously been filed against Rite-Aid and Walgreens, along with opioid manufacturers Purdue Pharma, Johnson and Johnson, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Endo Health Solutions, and Mallinckrodt, LLC.