UPDATE: US pharma giants to pay Native Americans $590 million over opioids - a podcast by BBC World Service

America's three biggest pharmaceutical distributors and Johnson&Johnson have been ordered to pay up to $665 million to native American tribal communities devastated by the opioid crisis. More than 400 tribes sued the companies, claiming they were inundated with highly addictive painkillers manufactured by J&J and shipped by the distributors who ignored clear signs of abuse and death. We hear from Lloyd Miller, one of the lead attorneys representing a third of the litigating tribes.

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