The Washington Post reports, “From 2013 to 2015, near the peak of U.S. opioid production, the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary in Tasmania was harvesting thousands of acres of poppies and the U.S. subsidiary was manufacturing enough oxycodone and hydrocodone – the two most abused prescription opioid drugs – to capture half or more of the U.S. market, according to company documents.” The Post says that “while Purdue Pharma, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals and other manufacturers are often linked to the opioid crisis, it was two subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson…that were producing the narcotics in many of the abused pills.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.