Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
Jul. 1, 2021
Most opioid addicts had history of drug abuse, doctor testifies
Dr. Douglas Tucker, seemingly to bolster its argument that previous addictive behavior in patients, not opioid marketing, was to blame for any opioid crisis in California.
Most patients who became addicted to prescription opioids already had a history of abuse before receiving a prescription, an addiction psychiatrist called by Johnson & Johnson's defense counsel testified in the state's $50 billion opioid trial Wednesday in Orange County.
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals INC, the second of four drug company defendants to present its case this week, called California addicti...
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