Reckoning with U.S. opioid crisis as $8 billion Ohio trial kicks off
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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The fight over who is responsible for the opioid epidemic that has ravaged the United States heads to court on Monday in Ohio as local governments seek billions of dollars from companies that manufactured and distributed the highly-addictive painkillers.The trial will pit two Ohio counties against five companies the local governments say helped fuel a nationwide crisis. Some 400,000 U.S. overdose deaths between 1997 and 2017 were linked to opioids, according to government..