Agree that part of this has been that ADFs are a new technology that the FDA is just beginning to wrap their head around. Needless to say, if one thinks there are no means by which Big Pharma and wealthy consordiums who own or operate those companies are not trying to delay the ADF march, then one is naïve to think otherwise. Too much money at stake here.
From the Esquire article:
The American market for OxyContin is dwindling. According to Purdue, prescriptions fell 33 percent between 2012 and 2016. But while the company’s primary product may be in eclipse in the United States, international markets for pain medications are expanding. According to an investigation last year in the Los Angeles Times, Mundipharma, the Sackler-owned company charged with developing new markets, is employing a suite of familiar tactics in countries like Mexico, Brazil, and China to stoke concern for as-yet-unheralded “silent epidemics” of untreated pain. In Colombia, according to the L.A. Times, the company went so far as to circulate a press release suggesting that 47 percent of the population suffered from chronic pain.
Napp is the family’s drug company in the UK. Mundipharma is their company charged with developing new markets.
In May, a dozen lawmakers in Congress, inspired by the L.A. Times investigation, sent a bipartisan letter to the World Health Organization warning that Sackler-owned companies were preparing to flood foreign countries with legal narcotics. “Purdue began the opioid crisis that has devastated American communities,” the letter reads. “Today, Mundipharma is using many of the same deceptive and reckless practices to sell OxyContin abroad.” Significantly, the letter calls out the Sackler family by name, leaving no room for the public to wonder about the identities of the people who stood behind Mundipharma.
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So, do you think Mundipharma is targeting countries likely to get an ADF technology soon? Highly doubtful they are.
And what does such a move remind us of? Big Tobacco. When they started losing the American market companies like Philip Morris went overseas
to peddle cancer causing tobacco. Straight fact.
Sacklers are doing likewise. Purdue being their American arm.
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