The pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has agreed to pay 230 million dollars to the state of New York to resolve a lawsuit by the Prosecutor’s Office for its responsibility in the opiate crisis in the United States.
As announced this Saturday by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, the pact implies that J&J suspend throughout the country the production and sales of its opiate products, which are highly addictive, and that it make payments to that state for nine years.
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