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The largest amount of money the state of Texas has ever recovered for illegal drug marketing didn't come from a drug cartel, or gang. After six years of investigations by Texas Attorney General's Civil...
The largest amount of money the state
of Texas has ever recovered for illegal drug marketing
didn't come from a drug cartel, or gang.
After six years of investigations by
Texas Attorney General's Civil Medicaid Fraud Division, the state
recovered their largest amount ever after litigation .against Johnson &
Johnson Inc. and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc.
The settlement totalled more than $48 million.
Attorney General Greg
Abbott’s investigation team centered on the Johnson & Johnson’s efforts
to market the atypical antipsychotic drug, Risperdal.
Johnson & Johnson urged doctors to prescribe the drug for
purposes not approved by the FDA.
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