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A look inside Ohio's lawsuit against opioid manufacturers

  • Written by Efthimios Parasidis, Associate Professor of Law and Public Health, The Ohio State University

Ohio made headlines when it became the second state to file a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers on May 31.

The suit names Purdue Pharma, Endo Health Solutions, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and subsidiary Cephalon, Johnson & Johnson and subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Allergan.

Ohio’s legal theory is based on a straightforward...

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