Opioid Epidemic Costs to Florida Public Schools RICO Complaint

June 27, 2022

This class action brings suit against a long list of pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors of opioids, on behalf of independent public school districts in Florida. The complaint claims, “public schools have been shouldering perhaps the most profound and enduring consequences of the nationwide opioid epidemic.” It points to schools’ needs to provide special education and other services to children who were exposed to opioids before birth, children who live in households with opioid use, and children who are themselves addicted.