Cities, Towns Sue Opioid-makers

(CBS Connectict) — Waterbury, Bridgeport, and a handful of other cities and towns today are filing a lawsuit accusing drug companies of paying doctors to spread false information about the safety of opioid pain killers that the companies sold.
An attorney for the cities and towns, Paul Hanly says for a century, it was widely accepted in the medical community that the use of opioid narcotic painkillers was risky.
The companies include Purdue Pharma, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Cephalon, Johnson &