Oklahoma Blames Opioid Crisis On Johnson & Johnson In Trial Closing Argument

(July 15, 2019, 2:37 PM EDT) -- NORMAN, Okla. — In closing arguments in Oklahoma’s public nuisance lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, a state attorney on July 15 told a state court judge that defendant Johnson & Johnson is responsible for the state’s opioid crisis because it grew opium poppies, because it told doctors opioids were safe for everyday pain and relatively nonaddictive and because it funded pain patient advocacy groups to normalize the drugs (Oklahoma, et al. v. Purdue Pharma L.P., et al., No. CJ-2017-816, Okla. Dist., Cleveland Co.)....

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