MM Suarez’s Reviews > No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson > Status Update

"Purdue is often the primary or even the exclusive target in a library’s worth of books on the addiction epidemic, for which Purdue’s OxyContin launch was the starting gun. But Andrew Kolodny, the world’s foremost expert on the opioid crisis, said that J & J was more at fault than Purdue."

"The FDA’s files are filled with letters from Lilly and J & J complaining about the other’s marketing practices. And since both companies regularly and deliberately broke the law, the complaints were usually accurate."

"In fact, the agency repeatedly approved new uses for J & J drugs based on information given by the company, even in the midst of criminal investigations launched by federal prosecutors that involved allegations that the company was lying to the FDA. Getting tough on drugmakers is simply not part of the agency’s mandate anymore."

"Johnson & Johnson then helped Engelhard replace its real records with false ones, creating affidavits swearing that asbestos had never been found in the Johnson or any other talc mine owned by them. Among those who signed such false affidavits was Roger N. Miller, president of J & J’s talc subsidiary."