Oklahoma Wanted $17 Billion To Fight Its Opioid Crisis: What's The Real Cost?
The $572 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson will cover one year of addiction treatment and prevention the judge says. But health economists predict it will take decades to abate the problem.
Today, the judge hearing the opioid case brought by Oklahoma against the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson awarded the state roughly $572 million.
The fact that the state won any money is significant — it's the first ruling to hold a pharmaceutical company responsible for the opioid crisis.
But the state had asked for much more: around $17 billion. The judge found the drugmaker liable for only about 1/30 of that.
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