Johnson & Johnson is less well-known as an opioid manufacturer, but the company makes Duragesic, a fentanyl patch, and produced Nucynta, an opioid, until 2015.
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Opioid Lawsuits Pile Up Against Family Behind Purdue Pharma
A string of lawsuits seeks to hold the Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma, responsible for the opioid crisis.
Insys Execs Used Rap Video To Push Higher Doses Of Fentanyl Spray
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How Big Pharma's Payments To Doctors Affected Overdose Deaths
A new study examined the link between large payments and gifts to doctors from pharma companies and overdose deaths. In counties and states where opioid manufacturers offered large payments or gifts to doctors to promote their product, a new study has suggested that both opioid prescriptions and opioid-related overdose deaths were higher than in other… Continue reading How Big Pharma's Payments To Doctors Affected Overdose Deaths