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A bipartisan group of 41 attorneys general are demanding information and documents from several drug makers and distributors as part of a large-scale probe into the role these companies may
have played in the opioid crisis.
The move is the latest effort by local and state governments to strike at industry as opioid painkillers continue to be blamed for fueling addiction and crime, and serving as a bridge to a
growing heroin trade. Every day, more than 40 Americans die from overdoses of opioid painkillers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And each year, 2 million people
abuse or misuse the drugs.
“As we know, for millions of Americans, their personal battle with opioid addiction did not start in a back alley with a tourniquet and syringe. They got hooked on medicine they were
prescribed for pain or that they found in a medicine cabinet,” New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said at a media briefing on Tuesday to announce the investigation.
