{"id":938,"date":"2016-12-18T18:50:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T02:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=938"},"modified":"2016-12-18T18:50:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T02:50:03","slug":"oxycontin-goes-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/12\/18\/oxycontin-goes-global\/","title":{"rendered":"OxyContin goes global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/projects\/la-me-oxycontin-part3\/#nt=oft12aH-1gp2\">In this L.A. Times report<\/a>, the newspaper brings to light a new effort by Purdue Pharma to push the drug in the next markets, Asia, Central\/South America, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>From the article, this telling paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018Talking about big money\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Untreated pain is a global scourge. Each year millions with terminal cancer and end-stage AIDS die in needless agony, according to the United Nations. The problem is most acute in the poorest countries.<\/p>\n<p>Stefano Berterame, an officer of the U.N.-affiliated International Narcotics Control Board in Vienna, works to increase access to opioids in countries with shortages. He said most of the global problem could be solved with \u201cvery cheap morphine\u201d but that selling it held little allure for multinational drug companies<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not very profitable,\u201d he said. \u201cCompanies prefer to market expensive preparations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good reading &#8230;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this L.A. Times report, the newspaper brings to light a new effort by Purdue Pharma to push the drug in the next markets, Asia, Central\/South America, and elsewhere. From the article, this telling paragraph: \u2018Talking about big money\u2019 Untreated pain is a global scourge. Each year millions with terminal cancer and end-stage AIDS die &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/12\/18\/oxycontin-goes-global\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[340,410,578,1125,1144,1242,1254,1287],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-938","7":"format-standard","8":"category-politics","9":"category-thinking-about","10":"post_tag-cancer","11":"post_tag-chronic-pain","12":"post_tag-drugs","13":"post_tag-morphine","14":"post_tag-multinational","15":"post_tag-opioids","16":"post_tag-oxycontin","17":"post_tag-pharma"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}