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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry speaks Monday to the St. Mary Industrial Group at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City. (The Daily Review/Zachary Fitzgerald)

The pain of opioids

Louisiana’s attorney general says he hopes to use a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers as a way to help combat the opioid epidemic along with the state’s violent crime problem. Attorney General Jeff Landry was guest speaker during the St. Mary Industrial Group’s luncheon meeting at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City. Since taking office as attorney general, Landry has been examining “a slow increase in violent crime” throughout Louisiana. In places such as Baton Rouge and New Orleans, “at one point and time, there was literally a shooting every 10 hours,” Landry said. At the same time, Landry said he ...

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