Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter on Friday filed a lawsuit in Cleveland County District Court against four of the nation's leading manufacturers of opioid pain medications, including Purdue Pharma, Allergan, Cephalon and Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
"These companies have waged a fraudulent, decade-long marketing campaign to profit from the anguish of thousands of Oklahomans," Hunter said. "These companies have made in excess of $10 billion a year, while our friends, family members, neighbors and loved ones have become addicts, gone to prison or died because of the opioid epidemic."