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The Daily Review/Bill Decker
Attorneys Mike Stag, left, and Joe Burke talk to the Patterson City Council on Tuesday about a potential lawsuit targeting the opioid epidemic.

Patterson council joins opioid litigation

PATTERSON — The city council has joined the effort to hold Big Pharma accountable for the opioid crisis. On Tuesday, the council voted unanimously to become one of the Louisiana communities represented by a group of attorneys in a possible lawsuit to reclaim the financial costs of opioid abuse. According to several sources, the human and monetary toll of opioid abuse is growing in Louisiana. The National Institute on Drug Abuse says that 7.7 people per 100,000 residents died from opioid overdoses in Louisiana in 2016, which is just more than half the national rate. But Louisiana’s rate has more than tripled ...

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