Attorney General Tish James sues Sackler family and pill distributors for opioid crisis

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Source: New York Daily News

New York Attorney General Letitia James slapped the Sackler pharmaceutical family and pill distributors with a 269-page lawsuit over the opioid crisis Thursday, declaring “today, my friends, we turn the tide.”

The state’s top prosecutor said the suit’s focus on pharmaceutical distributors was “groundbreaking.”

“They failed to exercise their most basic duty to detect and report the diversion of opioids because of poorly designed, poorly resourced, and poorly executed monetary programs," James said.

"Simply put, they put profit over patients.”

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-tish-opioid-crisis-lawsuit-20190328-e74ux2olmzdihnf2sg2fatqqwu-story.html

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