Here are four insights:
1. The city filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court’s middle district of Louisiana.
2. East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome argued the drug companies are to blame for the current opioid epidemic.
3. The lawsuit claims the manufacturers pressured physicians to prescribe opioids to patients without proper monitoring or educating about addiction.
4. In 2017, Baton Rouge experienced 89 overdoses associated with opioids.
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