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Tennessee counties slap Big Pharma with lawsuit over opioid epidemic costs
KnoxvilleView CommentsIn an unprecedented move, three Tennessee prosecutors are taking aim at drugmakers who supplied the opiates that addicted millions — Big Pharma — using the state’s long-ridiculed and rarely used “crack tax” law.The district attorneys general for three upper East Tennessee judicial districts collectively representing nine counties filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Sullivan County Circuit Court against opioid drugmakers Purdue Pharma, Mallinckrodt and Endo Pharmaceuticals.The lawsuit seeks to hold Big Pharma responsible for the opioid epidemic in Tennessee by labeling...…KnoxvilleView CommentsIn an unprecedented move, three Tennessee prosecutors are taking aim at drugmakers who supplied the opiates that addicted millions — Big Pharma — using the state’s long-ridiculed and rarely used “crack tax” law.The district attorneys general for three upper East Tennessee judicial districts collectively representing nine counties filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Sullivan County Circuit Court against opioid drugmakers Purdue Pharma, Mallinckrodt and Endo Pharmaceuticals.The lawsuit seeks to hold Big Pharma responsible for the opioid epidemic in Tennessee by labeling...WW…
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