they prescribe it. so maybe it s the people prescribing it. and then the people that took too much. so you can hit a wide swath. their defense is interesting one. it will be we sell anything, can t promote anything. we can t do it without an fda approval. we shouldn t even be in your court. the court has rejected that argument. they said you can make it the same judge that is rejecting it. so i don t know where that is going to go. i ll tell you an interesting story. when he was the chief justice of the united states, bill rehnquist was stopped for a dwi on the way home. he wasn t drunk. he had a back problem and he overtook the opioid medication
always open to that opportunity. but what oklahoma is saying is that they have an opioid crisis and johnson & johnson is responsible for that because they procured the raw narcotic materials that they then sold to the corporations that ended up as the opioid medication. they also marketed their own tablet along with a fentanyl patch that their marketing was very distorted. that they touted the benefits of this unreasonably, not telling the medical professionals or the public at large about the risks and that the untouted benefits were absolutely unsubstantiated. johnson & johnson is saying that they acted reasonably under all circumstances, that the fda monitored them and monitors all every step of the way and they have not deviated from that protocol, and they also say that since 2008 that they have actually written less than 1% of the prescriptions that have been
the worst drug with the worst reputation? i ll take you there well, maybe start here. speaker: once you found the right doctor and have told him or her about your pain, don t be afraid to take what they give you. often it will be an opioid medication. anthony: here s a 1996 promotional video from the fine folks at perdue pharmaceuticals. sent around to doctors, it encouraged them to prescribe the latest, newest, most wonderful drug for long-term pain management, oxycotin. speaker: some patients may be afraid of taking opioids because they re perceived as too strong or addictive. but that is far from actual fact. less than 1% of patients taking opioids actually become addicted. anthony: sales of oxycotin initially and falsely proclaimed as not addictive, absolutely skyrocketed from $45 million in
she had an addiction to opioid medication. an overdose would mean no crime. a regrettable accidental death or a suicide. then six weeks later, something that changed the entire focus of the investigation. emily s toxicology came back. results came back clean. she wasn t under the influence of opioids at the time of her death. so it wasn t a overdose. no trace of the pain pills. there was nothing in her system that would have killed her. there was no alcohol in her blood. so now investigators had to take a new look at the case, starting with the photos of the bruises on emily s body. police saw a bump on her head but during her initial exam, the medical examiner found more. areas of trauma to the front of her head, both left and right side of her head and top of her
the new addicts are almost entirely white, middle class, and from towns and areas like this. how do you think you make it better? carmen: you don t. anthony: whoa. you don t? carmen: no, there s going to be more robberies, there s going to be more killings. take one person off the street here, two more come in. anthony: at peak how many customers do you have? carmen: probably all of greenfield. anthony: what happened? how did the kid next door, along with mom, pop, and grandma too become users of hard-core illegal narcotic drugs. the worst drug with the worst reputation? i ll take you there well, maybe start here. speaker: once you found the right doctor and have told him or her about your pain, don t be afraid to take what they give you. often it will be an opioid medication. anthony: here s a 1996 promotional video from the fine folks at perdue pharmaceuticals.