Decrying "corporate greed," Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed the pharmaceutical industry for killing New Yorkers as opioid-related overdose deaths rise in the city.
"The pharmaceutical industry for years has encouraged the overuse of addictive painkillers and that has unfortunately poisoned our entire society," he said at a Bronx press conference. "The painkillers that have become all too common are some of the most addictive drugs on the planet—and let's be clear, the pharmaceutical industry has peddled them in the name of profit."
