New York officials announced Tuesday the city is joining hundreds of other municipalities suing the nation's largest opioid manufacturers and distributors.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the companies should be held accountable for the drug-abuse crisis.
"More New Yorkers have died from opioid overdoses than car crashes and homicides combined in recent years," de Blasio said, noting that more than 1,000 people in New York City died of a drug overdose involving an opioid in 2016, a record. "Big Pharma helped to fuel this epidemic by deceptively peddling these dangerous drugs and hooking millions of Americans in exchange for profit."
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