A Tennessee federal court granted a temporary restraining order to stop two Tennessee pharmacies and their owners as well as three pharmacists from alleged illegal dispensing of opioids that caused at least two deaths and several overdoses.

Oakley Pharmacy Inc., doing business as Dale Hollow Pharmacy (Dale Hollow), Xpress Pharmacy of Clay County (Xpress), their owner Thomas Weir and three pharmacists violated the Controlled Substances Act and False Claims Act by illegally dispensing and billing Medicare for prescriptions.

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