Oklahoma takes on drugmakers J&J, Teva in landmark opioid trial

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Oklahoma’s $17 billion lawsuit against opioid makers Johnson & Johnson and Teva is the first to go to trial of more than 2,000 similar actions by state and local governments

- Gail Box vividly remembers the day in May 2011 when she first learned her 22-year-old son Austin, a University of Oklahoma linebacker, was abusing opioid painkillers: It was the day he died of an overdose.

The question of why painkillers flooded into Oklahoma and the rest of the country will be the a central issue in a trial beginning Tuesday in Norman, Oklahoma, pitting the state against two drugmakers it accuses of fueling the epidemic: Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. J&J and Teva deny wrongdoing, arguing the state lacks evidence linking any marketing they did to doctors writing unwarranted opioid prescriptions.

In the wake of Purdue’s March settlement with Oklahoma, the state dropped many of its claims against the other two defendants and shifted its focus primarily to J&J, which it claims “acted as the kingpin behind this public health emergency.

 

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How come Mexico and tha Central American Countries that export Cocaine to America aren't Sued!!!!?

Why blame the manufacture for your state having so many addicts...miserable places to live higher numbers of addicts...

the only image you could find for JNJ was that of their mothballed consumer plant in India? But lazy guys......

Lawsuits, one important reason for high drug prices.

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