In Upcoming Opioid Case, Lawyers Want To Expose Darker Underbelly Of Johnson & Johnson’s Family-Friendly Image

The upcoming trial will be the first in the United States to result from about 2,000 lawsuits seeking to hold painkiller manufacturers responsible for contributing to the opioid epidemic. In the trial that will be televised live, Oklahoma state lawyers will argue that, until 2016, two of the company’s subsidiaries grew, improved and provided the narcotic ingredients for much of the U.S. prescription opioid supply, failing to intervene as the drugs’ damage grew, and that it targeted children with its marketing. In other news on the drug crisis: jails and addiction medication, nurses' authority, overdose deaths and more.

from Kaiser Health News http://bit.ly/2ViN11Z