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World Service,27 Aug 2019,53 mins

US pharmaceutical giant fined in landmark opioid trial

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In a landmark case, the US drugs company Johnson and Johnson has been fined more than half a billion dollars for fuelling the opioid addiction epidemic in Oklahoma. A court hearing on the fitness of Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba fails to take place We try to find out what's going on. And a leading publisher, Penguin Random House, collaborates with the Sleep Council and the Children鈥檚 Sleep Charity in the UK to create collections of 鈥淪leep Tales鈥� for adults and children.

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