You make a lot of good points. The best imo is why was Purdue the only Pharma company that most associate with in connection with the prescription opioid epidemic?
Why doesn't anyone know about Mallinckrodt?
(Mallinckrodt is SpecGx)
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Well, and @Millard. Lets have some fun with numbers and letters... You can read the last paragraph first in order to decide if you want to work your way through all this banter I post as a simple but pricipled man with nothing better to do. I have not bothered to edit this content in this post and the point being is all the typos, informational errors, and all shortcomings of a novice writer such as myself. Is still enough to speak for itself.
Sooo,,, in 2013 the patent on OXYCONTIN is set to expire soon. So evil power upon us has decided to destroy the United States by removing opioids from the market carte blanch, and with seeming pure disregard for all the negatives this will generate.
- They need a scapegoat as backlash creates "pudding proof". Someone must pay..!!!!!
- Oxycontin has gained considerable notoriety even though one of the most difficult opioids to abuse by its inherent design..
- Its also an innovation created by a small family owned company (purdue) that actually managed to make a mark in this world called OXYCONTIN.
- Keep in mind Purdue currently held the Patent on Hydoromorphone(dilaudid - the notorious "K4" changed to "P4") as well as manufacturing the whole gammit of generic opioids. Not really so small, but none the less privately owned. And much deeper pockets that the surface information to the public indicates.
- A family company large enough to have earned some serious financial clout, but small enough in terms of organization to push around. Keep in mind the sacklers and Purdue also own several subsidiaries apparently.
- Coincidentally as this patent is set to expire in 2013-2015 exact date unclear, but none of the competition is complaining that the FDA has now stated OXYCONTIN wont be allowed to go generic for bullshit reasons. And why would they being "in the know" of the complete shit storm on the horizon.
- Now imagine a group of dark suits coming in and telling the Sacklers "we can do this the easy way, or the hard one.".
- The EASY WAY being that in exchange for you taking one for the team, we will allow you to maintain exclusive rights to the concept of time released Oxycontin for a period indefinite and thus retain all future profits from said drug sales.
- And hey! the world is going to need a fix so we will allow one of your subsidiaries to hold that too an in the form of SECONDARY PATENTS. Possibly buprenorphine and suboxone.... (I am not going that deep by the point is made)
- The HARD WAY being we not only put you in a civil bind, but we go after your personally CRIMINALLY as well. And I do believe Purdue remains a privately held company with ZERO corporate veils of protection.!
- But the net result also effectively taking the "civil legal eye" off all the other generic companies.
- ( I wont discount the fact that Endo Phara took the hit of being slaughtered over OPANA/oxymorphone). So others did suffer, so why the sacklers so publicly endorsed for retribution?? Endo has huge tree brances as well owning subsidiaries with names like PAR Pharma which they aquired in 2015 and interlaced with several apparent Chapter 11 corporate restructures post the demise of the original Opana formulation. But you can see the depth to which the incredible political/business extends.
en.wikipedia.org
And endo is into much more than just the pain game, as they apparently settled some 1200 lawsuits REGARDING TESTIM.
I also find it amusing to see so many references in these large drug conglomerates always citing " AGREED TO PURCHASE" in terms of acquisitions.
- And it can easily be noted that Opioid like hydromorphone and oxymorphone are going NOWHERE long term and due to their value in hospital settings as they lack the failure of quick tolerance that classics like morphine possess.
So in even deeper review of the events to date it would appear that perhaps the sackler's legal division far from inept, and there has been an "exchange for profit" of sorts thus incentivizing the seemingly negative position the sacklers appear to have assumed over Oxycontin. Appear that is.... Its just not even close to the presented publication of frontline political stooges such as The New Yorker's KEEFE which portray in their apparent complicity with the whole hornswoggle of events. But it does make for great drama in story telling... Keefe is not reporting or writing about rocket science it would seem, but he is more like a mechanism for a very small facets of what appears to be the THUNDERDOME of the political business side of big pharma... And finally in which only further indicts the potential involvement of FAKE NEWS which IN and apparently rampant in todays society..
And to answer the earlier posed question as to WHY PUDUE and SACKLERS the optimal publicly villified scapegoats. It may turn out its because their primary and sole product lines being pain management, and whereas the other pharma companies in the pain game being more diversified on their surface pre-subsidiary level of business.
And all this information revleaved on the most basic of internet searched by even morons the likes of myself...
And I have no doubt that if you said he wrote the book well that he did so. Sounds like it's worthy of some interpretation... 
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