Johnson & Johnson To Judge: Listen To Oklahoma Doctors About Opioids Use, Abuse

(July 16, 2019, 2:01 PM EDT) -- NORMAN, Okla. — An attorney for Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals on July 15 told an Oklahoma judge to trust Oklahoma doctors to decide whether to prescribe long-term use of opioid for chronic, non-cancer pain and find that the defendants played little to no role in the state’s opioid abuse crisis (Oklahoma, et al. v. Purdue Pharma L.P., et al., No. CJ-2017-816, Okla. Dist., Cleveland Co.)....

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