Ohio loses 10 people a day as a result of opioid addiction, as well as billions of dollars in medical expenses and lost labour. State Attorney General Mike Dewine is suing pharmaceutical companies. "The evidence is overwhelming. They told physicians and spent hundreds of millions of dollars, to get this message across that these opioids were not very addictive", says Dewine. Family physician Dona Alba confirms this, remembering forceful pitching by companies such as Purdue and Jannsen: "They often came to the office, they pitched the product as the best possible analgesic for your patients, irrespective of the source of their pain. They said these products did not cause people to become addicted." In Chillicoth, a county of 77,000, over 1.6 million opioids have been prescribed. Pharmaceutical giants earn billions from these painkillers. Should they shoulder the cost of the epidemic they are accused of causing? Drug company representative Jodie Avergun offers another perspective: "It’s hard to believe that there is a naïve population of doctors whom pharmaceutical sales representatives were able to mislead to the extent that’s alleged in the lawsuit."