Sanders, an independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, said the bill aimed to
hold opioid manufacturers accountable for their role in the epidemic and force them to help pay for the crisis, which the White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated cost more than $ 500 billion in 2015..
Erie County Attorney Michael Siragusa said he has been working with an outside law firm since November to craft a suit
holding drug
manufacturers accountable for the painful toll the
opioid and heroin epidemic has had on the region.