The city of Miami claims pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors deceived opioid users with aggressive marketing tactics into believing their products were safe but in reality contributed to the opioid epidemic affecting millions of Americans.

Lawyers representing the city filed a lawsuit Monday under Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act against a host of pharmaceutical companies and distributors led by Purdue Pharma LP, maker of the widely prescribed OxyContin, as well as Janssen, Ortho-McNeil, AmerisourceBergen and Walgreens.