Kentucky's attorney general has sued pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts.
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The amount of prescription opioids sold annually in the U.S. quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, it says. Kentucky has been at the epicenter of the crisis with some of the nation's highest overdose death rates. Coleman, a Republican, is the latest in a series of Kentucky attorneys general from both parties — including former attorney general and current Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear — to go to court to hold opioid manufacturers and distributors accountable for what they viewed as the companies' roles in causing the addiction crisis.
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