Amy Goodman
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Reporter explains how Johnson & Johnson came to dominate the opioid industry
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August 27, 2019
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5:47Now PlayingIn a landmark decision, an Oklahoma judge ruled that pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson must pay $572 million dollars to the state of Oklahoma as damages for its role in stoking the opioid epidemic in the state. This is the first time a drug manufacturer has been held accountable for the public health disaster. We spoke with Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie, who explains that evidence laid out in the case paints a damning picture of Johnson & Johnson's involvement in the crisis. She describes Johnson & Johnson's "multipronged" model that starts at the production and wholesale distribution of painkiller active ingredients and ends with "a massive and misleading and false advertising [and] marketing campaign in which they had sales representatives target high-volume prescribers." But that's not all. Johnson & Johnson also works to "target people with cancer pain, noncancer pain, target old people, young people. In reality, that kind of targeting has devastating consequences," Lurie says.
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