{"id":12543,"date":"2019-01-30T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2019-01-30T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:18:09","slug":"document-facing-blame-for-seeding-the-opioid-crisis-purdue-explored-its-next-profit-opportunity-treating-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12543","title":{"rendered":"Document: Facing blame for seeding the opioid crisis, Purdue explored its next profit opportunity \u2014 treating addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By David Armstrong &#8211; ProPublica co-published by ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">N<\/span><\/span>ot content with billions of dollars in profits from the potent painkiller OxyContin, its maker explored expanding into an \u201cattractive market\u201d fueled by the drug\u2019s popularity \u2014 treatment of opioid addiction, according to previously secret passages in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/01\/15\/massachusetts-purdue-lawsuit-new-details\/\">court document<\/a>\u00a0filed by the state of Massachusetts.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/01\/30\/purdue-pharma-oxycontin-maker-explored-addiction-treatment\/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=6e34cf572e-Pharmalot&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-6e34cf572e-149624405\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By David Armstrong &#8211; ProPublica co-published by STAT) Not content with billions of dollars in profits from the potent painkiller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-activities","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12545,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions\/12545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}