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The judgement to hold a pharmaceutical company responsible for the opioid crisis may signal a potential reckoning for the opioid industry.

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By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

There are no real winners in the opioid epidemic. But on August 26, a judge in Oklahoma handed a small victory to the state, which had sued opioid-maker Johnson & Johnson for its role in the morass.