At trial, Oklahoma says Johnson & Johnson's 'greed' fuelled U.S. opioid crisis

Reuters ^ | 28-05-19 | Ben Fenwick

[cherry]

AMERICANS fueled the opioid crisis...

[Ingtar]

The only crisis that I see is how hard they have made it for law abiding citizens to get pain relief. My niece had major surgery on her neck with massive pain and nothing to help.

[KC_Conspirator]

“Tritation”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/opioid-rap-video-adding-to-john-kapoor-s-woes-at-insys-trial

[Bob434]

[[At trial, Oklahoma says Johnson & Johnson’s ‘greed’ fuelled U.S. opioid crisis]]

And now oklahoma and many many other states are fueled by greed and are going after ‘free money’ from the opioid company just like they were greedy going after tobacco-

[LIConFem]

What do we do when all of our Pharma companies are sued out of existance?

These state prosecutors should be personally on the hook for court and defendants’ costs when they bring such frivolous lawsuits.

[mewzilla]

Like the states’ Medicaid programs had nothing to do with it....

[mewzilla]

And then there’s Obamacare...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Military/Veterans?

[ClearCase_guy]

I think opioids are a serious problem.

But I also think that what we have here is a company that had a product, and wanted to sell its product. I have a hard time opposing that. Is Smith & Wesson next?

Seems like a slippery slope.

[txnativegop]

a slippery slope of negative 45 degrees covered with black ice. LOL

[dp0622]

You DO KNOW that they lost lawsuits because of lying about the addictiveness of their pills, right?

And if that was you or me we wouldnt just get sued. We’d be in prison.

But I know there are many here who are set in our (that includes me!) ways and still think corporations are the best thing since hemi engines.

I made a LOT of money working at corporate investment banks.

But I never lied to myself about the drug money laundering, etc. that they sis. I still stayed because it was q grwat job. It’s the choice I made.

But I was still glad to see them get caught.

Our blind allegiances to unfettered capitalism led to out of control corporations and nearly unlimited H1Bs.

They provide millions of great jobs. It’s just they’re not always right. That’s it :)

[gaijin]

Meet the original billionaire inventer of oxy, the SACKLER FAMILY..!

Now let's take look at opioid deaths in the USA over time:

Wow, that's a lot. I wonder what might help to account for that amazing growth:

Shameful, huh..? In view of such evil ambition, I wonder how profitable opiods are, huh..? The Sackler family owns an incredible 1/3 of the entire legal opiods market and they route all of their profits through Bermuda, where they own a non-descript office building.

I wonder HOW rich you can get...

But that's just ONE of their many houses.

This one goes for $32 million dollars and it's in Bel Air, next to Beverly Hills.

After HOOKING people, you probably won't believe that they were also recently granted a patent for a drug to get people UN-hooked, would you..?

Yes, paid to hook people, then paid to UN-hook them. Nice biz, huh...?

Nice medal, maybe he planted a flag on Mount Suribachi, right...?

Uh-huh, sure...!

If you weren't in the military, could you wear a serious look on your face while you walked around with a MEDAL on your suit jacket..?

That takes real brass.

[combat_boots]

Don’t forget the ChiComs and Cartels.

[Erik Latranyi]

Here is some hard truth...rugged people did not get addicted to opioids...snowflakes and men who wear pussy hats after losing an election get addicted to opioids.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

No doubt if opioids were more restricted there would be more incentive to invent new products.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Seriously? You call that a valid argument considering all the crime. Hell without the opioid epidemic we’d need half or less of the cops we have now.

[Bob434]

who the heck said my ‘argument’ was ‘against crime’? Wow!

Just pointing out that these states are crying about the manufacturer ‘being greedy’ when infact THEY - the states- are even more greedy- I thought my post was pretty clear?

[Bonemaker]

Big lawyer gravy train like they sucked out of tobacco. If I were J and J no more painkillers for any of the plaintiffs.

[JohnBrowdie]

these days, FR is ready to nationalize everything from Boeing to the company that makes the little vaping pens. I’m sure the same people will want to send [fill in the blank] to the electric chair for inventing a drug that helped millions of people.

some days, it’s hard to see how this is a discussion forum about limited government.