Haine
Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine announced Friday that he filed a civil lawsuit against McKinsey & Company, a management consultancy, alleging civil conspiracy for its role in advising pharmaceutical manufacturers on the sales and marketing of opioids.
According to a press release, Madison County’s lawsuit against McKinsey & Company is the first of its kind in Illinois and among the first filed in the country.
“Madison County seeks to hold McKinsey accountable for its role in coldly wrecking so many lives through opioid over-prescription and addiction,” Haine stated. “McKinsey designed and implemented the strategies that lead to a ‘turbocharge’ of opioid prescriptions even at the height of the opioid epidemic. McKinsey’s partners working on opioid issues even suggested destroying evidence relating to its work. Now McKinsey needs to pay. It won’t bring people back or repair families, but it will be some measure of justice. And any funds recovered can then be put towards local drug mitigation programs and to combat the scourge of mental health that is so related to addiction in the first place.”