Hello. Ajudge in oklahoma has ordered the giant Healthcare Company Johnson Johnson to pay 572 million for its role in the opioid addiction crisis in the us. The case is the first to go to trial out of thousands filed against drug manufacturers and distributors. Two other firms have reached settlements with oklahoma out of court. The judge said prosecutors had demonstrated thatJohnson Johnson contributed to a public nuisance in its deceptive promotion of highly addictive prescription painkillers, and compromised the health and safety of thousands. The company is to appeal. Those actions compromised the health and safety of thousands of oklahomans. Specifically, defendants caused an Opioid Crisis that is evidenced by increased rates of addiction, Overdose Deaths and neonatal abstinence syndrome in oklahoma. Our north america correspondent peter bowes has more on the significance of the ruling. This is a landmark ruling that could have far reaching consequences because as you imply, there
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Good. Evening, everybody. Welcome to the North Carolina museum of Natural Sciences. Thank you so much for coming out to tonights thank you for tuning in. If youre watching with us live online, weve a very special program for you tonight. We have just a whole stage full of brilliant people not including myself, of course. My name is chris smith. I work here at the museum of Natural Sciences as the coordinator for current programs that job title means that i get the pleasure and privilege of welcoming everybody into the museum. It also means that i get to really interesting people who are doing interesting out there in the realms of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, art as it relates to science, education, and even more. And so its always thrill to be here in the Museum Talking about science, nature, conservation, any of those great and fabulous topics that make this museum such a great resource and such a great to be, to my left, you can see these are the brilliant people t