Johnson & Johnson announced it would pay a $10 million settlement—as well as $5 million in legal fee reimbursements and a $5.4 charitable contribution—as part of agreement for their role in the opioid crisis in two Ohio counties.
Johnson & Johnson announced it would pay a $10 million settlement -- as well as $5 million in legal fee reimbursements and a $5.4 million charitable contribution -- as part of an agreement for their role in the opioid crisis in two Ohio counties.
"The settlement allows the Company to avoid the resource demands and uncertainty of a trial as it continues to seek meaningful progress in addressing the nation’s opioid crisis," the company said in a statement."The Company recognizes the opioid crisis is a complex public health challenge and is working collaboratively to help communities and people in need."
Ohio has especially suffered from the nationwide opioid crisis. The state had the second-highest rate of drug overdose deaths involving opioids in the U.S. in 2017, according to the most recent data from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse. That same year, there was a rate of 38.2 deaths per 100,000 people, more than twice the average national rate of 14.6 deaths per 100,000 people.
Johnson & Johnson and its pharmaceutical company, Janssen, sold Duragesic , as well as the opioid medications Nucynta and Nucynta ER.
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