{"id":2436,"date":"2018-03-30T18:26:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T22:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/cattaraugus-county-declares-opioid-epidemic-a-nuisance\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:25:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:25:50","slug":"cattaraugus-county-declares-opioid-epidemic-a-nuisance","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/cattaraugus-county-declares-opioid-epidemic-a-nuisance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattaraugus County Declares Opioid Epidemic A Nuisance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cattaraugus County Legislature on Wednesday officially declared the county\u2019s heroin\/opioid epidemic a public nuisance.<\/p>\n<p>The measure, which passed 14-0 with one abstention, is titled, \u201cLocal Law Declaring the Opioid Epidemic and Its Effects on Cattaraugus County A Public Nuisance and Establishing a Cost Recovery Procedure for the County\u2019s Expenditures Incurred in Providing Services Related to the Opioid Epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The county has retained a New York City law firm, Napoli Shkolnik, as outside counsel. The firm is also representing Niagara County and several other New York state counties in a class-action lawsuit alleging drug manufacturers have contributed to the heroin\/opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing and overprescribing pain-relieving opioids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cattaraugus County Legislature on Wednesday officially declared the county\u2019s heroin\/opioid epidemic a public nuisance. The measure, which passed 14-0 with one abstention, is titled, \u201cLocal Law Declaring the Opioid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":442,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[75,101],"whitepaper-source":[200],"class_list":["post-2436","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper_category-new-york-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper-source-olean-times-herald"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}