dailycaller
Steve Birr
Vice Reporter
4:36 PM 02/08/2018
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http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/08/montgomery-county-maryland-drug-deaths/The most populous county in Maryland is suing drug makers for sparking, “unprecedented opioid addiction,†through deceptive marketing of their painkillers.
Officials with Montgomery County filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court Tuesday, targeting a number of the nation’s largest manufacturers and distributors of opioid painkillers including Purdue Pharma, Cephalon, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Endo Pharmaceuticals and Cardinal Health. They allege the companies deceived the public and doctors on the addiction risks of their drugs and failed to report suspicious pill orders, reports The Washington Post.
Montgomery County lost 117 residents to opioid overdoses in 2016, up from only 27 in 2010. County officials want the pharmaceutical industry on the hook for the rising public costs of fighting the overdose epidemic.
