Oklahoma lawyers at trial's end say opioid 'kingpin' J&J fuelled epidemic
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NORMAN, Okla. (Reuters) - Lawyers for the state of Oklahoma on Monday compared Johnson & Johnson to a drug cartel leader as they sought to hold the drugmaker responsible for fuelling the U.S. opioid epidemic in the first trial to result from lawsuits over the crisis.Lawyers for the state, including Attorney General Mike Hunter, told a judge in Norman, Oklahoma that J&J's "greed" led the drugmaker to carry out a years-long marketing effort that caused "utter confusion" about the addictive..