Jackson County sues nation's largest opioid drug companies

Jackson County is taking aim at the nation's leading pharmaceutical companies in the form of a civil lawsuit.   Filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, the lawsuit aims to hold the companies accountable for their "deliberate and deceptive marketing strategies of opioid painkillers" that have caused high overdose and fatality rates in the county, according to a rele ase. The lawsuit contends that the pharmaceutical companies created the "worst man-made epidemic…
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