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they mismarketed their products and the judge has held them responsible. we re going to be able to put almost $1 billion to this problem in oklahoma with the other two settlements. so we re happy with the verdict. obviously, we would have liked more, but we re very happy with the judge, again, finding that johnson & johnson was culpable for what s happened in oklahoma. ag, two big terms that came out of this. and then we ll get to the strategy in court. what they call the defendants pseudo addiction, and it is really just such a wicked dynamic that you guys outlined in court, convincing doctors that patients who exhibits signs of addiction, like asking for higher doses of opioids or came back early and used up the prescription before they were supposed to, they weren t actually suffering from addiction, but from the undertreatment of pain and they
videotape of him saying it was as high as 25%. so, chris, if you or your family went to talk to your doctor and said, look, i have chronic back pain and i want to take an opioid, what s my chance of getting addicted? what you want your doctor to say is, chris, this is a tough decision, we don t know, the science is still out there, maybe you ll get addicted, maybe you won t, but it s as high as 25 to 100%. but that s not what happened here. they lied and said it was zero. and on the pseudo addiction thing, one of the things that j&j funded was a book that came out in oklahoma. they led doctors to believe that if someone came in and said, look, my kid is stealing my prescription drugs and what do i do? if the kid said he was still in pain, they called that pseudo addiction. they told doctors and policy leaders that when you got to things like sex trafficking and prostitution to get your opioids, that might be addiction.
thing, one of the things that j&j funded was a book that came out in oklahoma. they led doctors to believe that if someone came in and said, look, my kid is stealing my prescription drugs and what do i do? if the kid said he was still in pain, they called that pseudo addiction. they told doctors and policy leaders that when you got to things like sex trafficking and prostitution to get your opioids, that might be addiction. it really that offends decency. it reminds me of the day when we used to be talking about antidepressants and they said, don t say side effects, say unintended consequences. and a lot of this can be very deceptive. now, they feel confidence, j&j, because they believe that nuisance law is such an unusual application that they may be able to beat it. but underlying facts and what this judge says he believed tells a story that goes far beyond what is just clear in the nuisance statute. ag, counsel beckworth, thank you
strategy in court. what they call the defendants pseudo addiction, and it is really just such a wicked dynamic that you guys outlined in court, convincing doctors that patients who exhibits signs of addiction, like asking for higher doses of opioids or came back early and used up the prescription before they were supposed to, they weren t actually suffering from addiction, but from the undertreatment of pain and they should give them more. and they told doctors, don t fall into the addiction ditch. avoid negatives like using the word addiction and emphasize the positive of supposed efficacy. what do you see behind those terms and what was really going on here? well, i ll give you a couple of terms, chris, devious and diabolical. what happened here is they made a decision that there was an opportunity for them to make billions of dollars off of misrepresenting these drugs,