{"id":4408,"date":"2016-09-22T10:18:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2016-09-22T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:18:40","slug":"secret-trove-reveals-bold-crusade-to-make-oxycontin-a-blockbuster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4408","title":{"rendered":"Secret trove reveals bold \u2018crusade\u2019 to make OxyContin a blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By David Armstrong for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">W<\/span>ELCH, W.Va.\u00a0\u2014 The pharmaceutical sales representatives from health care giant Abbott Laboratories had a problem. No matter what they tried, they couldn\u2019t get the attention of an orthopedic surgeon to convince him to prescribe the potent painkiller\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/03\/15\/stat-seeks-oxycontin-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">OxyContin<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/abbott-oxycontin-crusade\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9LkUcEgVAn4P-WRhXt4HXpA6o55SmMDM0gWfk5AIolpR5hoAvkC282r2z9R4ARLR0kH-rZTbEJIRptZfFU3fPsDCuO1A&amp;_hsmi=34737932\" target=\"_blank\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;&#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=\"stat-logo\" 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<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By David Armstrong for STAT) WELCH, W.Va.\u00a0\u2014 The pharmaceutical sales representatives from health care giant Abbott Laboratories had a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","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=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4409,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}