WAUSAU – The opioid epidemic has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and cost untold millions spent on drug enforcement and rehabilitation programs. Now Marathon County may join a lawsuit asking pharmaceutical companies that profit from addictive prescription opiates to pay a share of those costs.

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