Oklahoma, J&J to wrap up first trial over opioid crisis

- Oklahoma’s attorney general is expected on Monday to urge a judge to find Johnson & Johnson responsible for flooding the market with painkillers and fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic, as the first trial in nationwide litigation over the drug crisis comes to an end.

The case is one of more than 2,000 actions by state and local governments accusing drug manufacturers of contributing to an epidemic linked to a record 47,600 opioid overdose deaths in 2017, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Oklahoma says that starting in the 1990s, New Jersey-based J&J used misleading marketing to push doctors to prescribe more opioids.

J&J denies the allegations. Its lawyers have argued that its products made up a small share of opioids prescribed in Oklahoma and carried U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved labels that warned of the addictive risks.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

MSNBC now I understand why Johnson & Johnson has a weird ad on MSNBC letting us all know what they, 'Do' for us. They didn't include this 🤔

I listened ti OK’d AG speak aboyt this trial months ago- I’m routing for a win for OK!

Here in Norman, OK.

Oklahoma's attorney general is expected on Monday to urge a judge to find Johnson & Johnson responsible for flooding the market with painkillers

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