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Bid a lawsuit filed. they are suing drug makers for causing the state's drug crisis. they are saying the companies looked patients on drug medicine just to make profits. according to the suit, they knew the drugs with addictive and they downplayed it to doctors. then the suit argues those patients sought cheaper stronger drugs like heroin or synthetic op opioids. and ohio is not the only state to do this. the same year in kentucky, two big drug companies settled two big lawsuits for millions of dollars. and as we noted on wednesday, these suits might sound a lot like the 1990s tobacco lawsuit....

General, good to see you, sir. >> hey, chuck, thank you. >> let me start with the basics of the lawsuit. you do compare it to back in th. do you have specific evidence already that allowed you to feel comfortable filing this lawsuit? >> you know, chuck, taking on five big pharma companies is not something you just wake up some day and decide to do. you know, we looked at this long and hard and, frankly, we believe that the evidence is going to show what we have alleged. and there are certainly some similarities. what really happened here is this, and this is the history. you know, historically...