Please research the lawsuits brought against pharmaceutical manufacturers of opioids. What is currently going on with this? How is this a criminal law issue? How many perspectives are (or should be) represented in such legal disputes, and what are they? And what are your thoughts about distributers of drugs - pharmacies - being included in the liability? What do YOU think should happen? Please provide your supporting resources, especially those that reflect legal, other scholarly and community points of view.

https://apnews.com/article/business-health-lawsuits-california-los-angeles-308ad46ecb6e08d57fc08ed78870c187

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/purdue-seeks-approval-6-billion-opioid-settlement-over-state-doj-objections-2022-03-09/