The historic Johnson and Johnson court ruling yesterday continues to reverberate for people who’ve been touched by opiate addiction, and for people who’ve relied on opiate pain medication. Johnson and Johnson was fined over half a billion dollars. How uniquely American is a case like this? The World’s Elana Gordon has been looking into how opiate prescription use here compares with other places.
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