Gardiner Harris
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Apple News Today
How tariffs could transform the auto industry
This is a company that played, if not the major role in the opioid crisis, one that was equally bad with Purdue Pharma.
Apple News Today
How tariffs could transform the auto industry
In fact, during the height of the prescription opioid crisis, about 10 to 20 percent of the bodies that showed up in morgues had a Purdue Pharma product in their system. Roughly 60 percent had a Johnson & Johnson product in their system.
Apple News Today
How tariffs could transform the auto industry
They produced most of the natural opioid ingredients used for all opioids in the United States, including Purdue Pharma's OxyContin. OxyContin could never have become as popular or been as widely used without Purdue's partnership with Johnson & Johnson.
Apple News Today
How tariffs could transform the auto industry
It's hard to even conceive of this now, that anyone could possibly claim that fentanyl is non-addictive. But that's what Johnson & Johnson did for years and years and years. So, of course, death soared.