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Sackler-Owned Opioid Maker Pushes Overdose Treatment Abroad

The gleaming white booth towered over the medical conference in Italy in October, advertising a new brand of antidote for opioid overdoses. “Be prepared. Get naloxone. Save a life,” the slogan on its walls said. “You’re in the business of selling medicine t...
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Judge Orders Drugmaker to Pay $572 Million in Opioid Lawsuit

NORMAN, Okla. — An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million, more than twice the amount another drug manufacturer agreed to pay i...