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by Scoundreller 2495 days ago
> And J&J is by no means a major opioid manufacturer

The had the non-hospital fentanyl market cornered for a while. Their patches were only for chronic use by patients already tolerant to opioids.

Even if they had less than 1% of the market, they would have had a much larger proportion of the high-dose market, where mortality risk ramps up.