County Becomes 2nd Government Entity to Sue Drug Distributors for Opioid Addiction

Fulton County, Georgia, home to Atlanta, has become the second government entity in the United States to file suit against drug distributors for allegedly helping feed a public health crisis in the form of opioid addiction and abuse. While many attorney generals and other public litigators have filed suit against pharmaceutical companies and doctors in connection with a wave of opioid addiction the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called an “epidemic,” only Fulton County and West Virginia have sent their legal teams after drug distributors. Under the Georgia Pharma...