If we get into those emails and executives are in the chain knowing what they’ve unleashed on the American public, I’m going to kick it over to a criminal lawsuit. I’ve been to too many funerals.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who in 2015 was the first state AG to sue a prescription drug company over their role in the opioid epidemic. Since then, more than 100 cities, counties and states have filed similar lawsuits.