The City of Allentown has filed a federal complaint in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania seeking to recover costs from what the city alleges was false, deceptive, and unfair marketing of prescription opioids by 20 defendants.

Pennsylvania is the first state chosen by a New York City nonprofit to receive part of a $50 million investment created to help tackle the national opioid crisis.

A lot has changed since 1998, the year that Pennsylvania and 45 states stood up to big tobacco and helped create the Tobacco Settlement Fund, or TSF. We may have moved on from CD-ROMs, dial-up internet and the Y2K-bug frenzy. But a few things have stood the test of time: Pokémon, “Toy Story” and Pennsylvania’s commitment to keeping the core mission of the TSF dedicated to health care.