August 28, 2019 By Barby Ingle, PNN Columnist This week an Oklahoma judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis and ordered the company to pay $572 million in damages. I watched the entire 7 weeks of the Oklahoma trial and hoped that Judge Thad Balkman would get this right. I…
Johnson & Johnson opioid ruling explained – the key points
By Chris McGreal in Washington Mon 26 Aug 2019 21.08 EDT An Oklahoma judge has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $572m for its role in driving Oklahoma’s opioid epidemic. The landmark ruling will have wide-ranging consequences for the other opioid makers, distributors and pharmacy chains facing thousands of lawsuits across the country. Judge Thad…
CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline: Unintentional Consequences?
Posted on July 11, 2018 by Angelika Byczkowski I’m sick of reading how all the horrible and entirely predictable consequences of the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline were “unintentional” and “unforeseeable”. The broad misinterpretation of the CDC’s Opioid Prescribing Guideline as establishing fixed limits on opioid prescribing has stranded hundreds of thousands of pain patients in…
U.S. NEWS Johnson & Johnson must pay over $572 million for its role in Oklahoma opioid crisis, judge rules
AUG. 26, 2019, 1:08 PM PDT / UPDATED AUG. 26, 2018. By Doha Madani Oklahoma’s attorney general claimed that the company marketed opioids to doctors while downplaying the risks of the addictive painkillers since the 1990s. “TO WATCH VIDEO GO TO LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST.“ An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson &…
THE “OPIOID CRISIS” IS NOT AT IT APPEARS
July 2, 2019, Jory Pradjinski Hope Instilled: An oasis from the darkness of pain The public has been misled by irresponsible actions “What we have here is a failure to communicate”. That’s a great line from the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke. It is meaningful today as well. The entire “opioid crisis/epidemic” has been a…
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