The administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced its intention to bring legal action against the painkiller industry responsible for the ongoing opioid crisis in the US.
To this end, the city has filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court demanding over $500 million from a range of names in big pharma, including Teva, Johnson & Johnson, Janssen, Allergan, Purdue Pharma, Endo Health Solutions, and a number of subsidiaries and affiliates, as well as distributors of the drugs McKesson, Cardinal Health and Amerisource Bergen.
