Photo: Public nuisance laws have been used to make drug manufacturers and distributors pay for their part in the deadly opioids crisis. Photograph:  BackyardProduction/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Opioid manufacturers and other major corporations are pushing legislation to strip away state laws that have been used to sue the pharmaceutical industry for hundreds of millions of dollars over the worst drug epidemic in US history.

The influential rightwing pressure group the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), which is funded by large US companies, is behind model legislation to greatly restrict lawsuits under state public nuisance laws which are widely used to hold big business to account.

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