{"id":12707,"date":"2019-02-22T10:47:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T15:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12707"},"modified":"2019-02-22T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T15:47:47","slug":"purdues-sackler-embraced-plan-to-conceal-oxycontins-strength-from-doctors-sealed-deposition-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12707","title":{"rendered":"Purdue\u2019s Sackler embraced plan to conceal OxyContin\u2019s strength from doctors, sealed deposition shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By <span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">David Armstrong for a collaboration between STAT and ProPublica)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">I<\/span><\/span>n May 1997, the year after Purdue Pharma launched\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/abbott-oxycontin-crusade\/\">OxyContin<\/a>, its head of sales and marketing sought input on a key decision from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/05\/12\/man-center-secret-oxycontin-files\/\">Dr. Richard Sackler<\/a>, a member of the billionaire family that founded and controls the company. Michael Friedman told Sackler that he didn\u2019t want to correct the false impression among doctors that OxyContin was weaker than morphine, because the myth was boosting prescriptions \u2014 and sales.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/02\/21\/purdue-pharma-richard-sackler-oxycontin-sealed-deposition\/\">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><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6975 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo-300x58.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ProPublica-logo.png 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nNotice: 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 for a collaboration between STAT and ProPublica) In May 1997, the year after Purdue Pharma launched\u00a0OxyContin, its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707","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=12707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12708,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions\/12708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}