Counties sue narcotics makers

Two Cali­for­nia counties sued five of the world’s largest nar­cot­ics man­u­fac­tur­ers on Wed­nes­day, ac­cus­ing the com­pan­ies of caus­ing the na­tion’s pre­scrip­tion drug epi­dem­ic by wa­ging a “cam­paign of de­cep­tion” aimed at boost­ing sales of po­tent paink­illers such as Oxy­Con­tin.

Note: The law­suit was filed with re­dac­tions.