dailycaller
Steve Birr
Vice Reporter
3:53 PM 11/15/2017
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/15/75-cities-and-states-are-now-suing-big-pharma-for-spreading-death-with-painkillers/Officials in Indianapolis are launching a lawsuit against several of the country’s largest manufacturers of painkillers, alleging reckless marketing igniting the addiction epidemic.
Mayor Joe Hogsett filed the lawsuit Tuesday, which targets OxyContin makers Purdue Pharma, Teva, Endo Pharmaceuticals and Mallinckrodt. The lawsuit pins responsibility for the current opioid epidemic gripping the city on these drug makers and their distributors, who they allege used knowingly false advertising to downplay the risks of addition from their drugs in pursuit of “blockbuster profits,” reports IndyStar.
They also claim the companies failed to “identify, report and stop suspicious orders” of opioid painkillers into Marion County, which has the highest number of opioid overdose deaths in all of Indiana. Hogsett did not issue a statement Tuesday due to the pending litigation
