Breaking News: In the first trial against an opioid maker, a judge held Johnson & Johnson responsible for Oklahoma's drug crisis and ordered it to pay $572 million.

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BREAKING NEWS In the first trial against an opioid maker, a judge held Johnson & Johnson responsible for Oklahoma's drug crisis and ordered it to pay $572 million. Monday, August 26, 2019 4:11 PM EST Johnson & Johnson, which contracted with poppy growers in Tasmania, supplied 60 percent of the opiate ingredients that drug companies used for opioids like oxycodone, the state had argued, and aggressively marketed opioids to doctors and patients as safe and effective. Read More »

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