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Drugmaker must pay $572m for fuelling opioid crisis

News and issues making the headlines each day.

A US judge has ruled that drugmaker Johnson & Johnson must pay $572m for fuelling opioid addiction in Oklahoma. The company say they will appeal the decision.

Also in the programme: Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been charged with spying after being detained since January; how are indigenous people in the Amazon rain forest responding to wildfires?

(Picture: Painkiller drugs. Credit: Getty Images)

53 minutes

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  • Tue 27 Aug 201909:06GMT

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