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The Leonard Lopate Show
An Exposé Revealing A Criminal In Our Midst

Steven Brill will discuss his latest story in the Huffington Post Highline "America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker." In this 15 chapter story, Steven Brill lays bare the true story of the how Johnson & Johnson marketed Rispederal to children with behavioral problems. The company handed out promotional legos to pediatricians to get them to prescribe the drug, they massaged data to avoid revealing that the drug puts little boys at risk for large breasts. Despite $3 billion in legal fees, the drug was a blockbuster for the company, and Steve Brill chronicles exactly how they made that happen.