A number of Minnesota counties are suing opioid manufacturers and distributors in state and federal court, alleging fradulent marketing and other offenses. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman says opioid makers are misleading people…

Freeman likens the legal action to lawsuits against the tobacco industry in the 1990s. Washington County Attorney Pete Orput (OR-put) says “corporate schlockmeisters” marketing opioids to doctors have caused a public health epidemic.