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Last updated on Tuesday, March 20, 2018
(MARTINSVILLE) - Martinsville is joining a growing list of cities filing suit against pharmaceutical companies.
On Monday, the city said it filed a lawsuit against five pharmaceutical drug manufacturers and three whole sale drug distributors.
Martinsville Mayor Shannon Kohl says they've been working on the suit for a couple of months prior to the filing.
"Mostly we just felt like it was time to hold the manufacturers accountable. There's things that they were supposed to report that they didn't report as far as suspicious drug ordering, things that they were supposed to follow through on that they didn't do with the FDA," Kohl says. "We just want to hold them accountable."
Martinsville Police Chief Matt Long says they're seeing more cases of officers exposed to opioids while on the job, hundreds of juveniles facing arrest, juveniles overdosing and crimes linked to drugs.
"Bottom line is it's killing our community members, it's putting our public safety officials in jeopardy by going out there," Chief Matt Long said. "We've got to figure this out then we've got to figure this out together."
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