Ohio AG gives McKesson, others 30 days to be 'part of the solution' on addictive opioids

Ohio's attorney general fired off letters to the CEOs of five makers of pain-killing opioid drugs and the leaders of other healthcare companies, including San Francisco-based wholesaler McKesson Corp., to force accountability for the state's opioid epidemic. Attorney General Mike DeWine's letters Monday aren't the first moves aimed at rolling back addiction to opioids, a class of drugs that includes prescription painkillers, such as oxycodone, and the street-level drugs heroin and fentanyl. Various…
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