Woman Sues Walgreens, Claims Company Is Responsible for Son's Overdose and Her Attempted Suicide

A woman is suing Walgreens, claiming the Deerfield-based pharmacy giant prescribed excessive amounts of narcotics that led to the accidental overdose death or her son and her suicide attempt the following day.

Donna Soltis cites negligent supervision and training, general negligence and negligent infliction of emotional distress in a lawsuit filed May 6 in Cook County Circuit Court against Walgreen’s, Inc.; Walgreens Pharmacy Stores numbers 4460, 5713 and 1484; unnamed pharmacists in those stores; A and T Pharmacy Inc.; and unknown pharmacists there, according to the Cook County Record. Walgreen’s is accused of doling out the medications from 2010 to 2014.

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In the complaint, Soltis claims she began seeing Dr. Blaise Wolfrum in 1990 and continued to be treated at his substance abuse center/pain management clinic until 2014. Wolfrum prescribed “mega quantities of controlled substances [powerful narcotics, antipsychotics] to the plaintiff,” the suit states.

The suit also claims Soltis’ 31-year-old son broke into her medicine cabinet in 2013 and accidentally overdosed on her accumulated stockpile of amphetamines, benzodiazepines and morphine. Soltis then tried to kill herself with the excess pills the following day, despondent over her son’s death.

Soltis seeks unspecified damages, plus costs, to be determined by the court.

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