Lawyers for Walgreen Co., the only defendant remaining in the state of Florida’s opioid case, used the state attorney general’s own words to make its case before jurors Monday.

In statements on the attorney general’s office website in 2018 and 2019, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi said that drug manufacturers, such as Purdue Pharma, misrepresented the risks of opioids to doctors, governmental agencies, prescribers and, most critically, pharmacies, said Walgreens attorney Steven Derringer, a Chicago partner at Bartlit Beck.

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