Tucson sues Big Pharma due to mishandling Opioid.

http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/2019/01/18/city-county-sue-pharmaceutical-companies-over-opioid-crisis/

https://www.scribd.com/document/397691159/City-of-Tucson-v-Purdue-Pharma-Et-Al-Complaint-Filed-1-1-19-1#from_embed

       Pima County of Arizona has opted to sue Big Pharma totalling to 20 companies because of Opioid Crisis that Purdue Pharma , a Chandler , Arizona based company and others is said to be fueling the epidemic in every zip code of Tucson. Purdue Pharma and 19 other companies are mentioned in court filings that the county filed January 17th 2019. Quoted as being the " Prescription for Addiction ". A alarming price tag of $253 million is said to have cost the county in ER visits and overdoses when Opioid use doubled from 2008 to 2016. It is claimed that these Big Pharma companies peddled and pushed the prescription Opioids like international drug cartels to have local physicians prescribe and sell them.
       As said nationally " A nation addicted to pain meds " is beginning to see radical changes and alternatives to Opioids. CBD's from the Marijuana plant seem to be revolutionizing the medical industry. And the changing tide of laws and policy have begun in many states where medicinal marijuana has been made legal including Arizona. And other states have also decided to make legal recreational use of marijuana.
      The Major concern though is many patients that were Opioid addicted are now turning to Fentanyl           (synthetic opioid ) at a very alarming rate. 100 times stronger than Morphine the demand of Fentanyl is dangerously fueling the drug trade from south of the border in Mexico. The United States is far to familiar with the drug epidemic coming from the south and its violence that follows. A massive gripping scourge. But the Fentanyl does not only come from the cartels south of the United States either. It also is being illicitly trafficked from China. Some wonder is this yet another way " China " plans to strike America? Narco-terrorism? What makes Fentanyl so valuable to China and Mexican Cartels is the extreme potency in small doses. Which in turn allows for smaller shipments that would be trafficked to the United States.
       A gauge on the extreme potency is " a grain of Fentanyl can kill ". Very extreme danger that is faced worldwide. Many Heroin users also graduate to Fentanyl. We will keep you updated on this lawsuit.