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Diverting Data and Drugs: A Narrative Review of the Mallinckrodt Documents.
Lentacker, Antoine; Pham, Kelly; Chernesky, Jason M.
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  • Lentacker A; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE, RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, USA.
  • Pham K; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE, RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, USA.
  • Chernesky JM; JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA.
J Law Med Ethics ; 52(1): 118-132, 2024.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38818605
ABSTRACT
U.S. law imposes strict recording and reporting requirements on all entities that manufacture and distribute controlled substances. As a result, the prescription opioid crisis has unfolded in a data-saturated environment. This article asks why the systematic documentation of opioid transactions failed to prevent or mitigate the crisis. Drawing on a recently disclosed trove of 1.4 million internal records from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, a leading manufacturer of prescription opioids, we highlight a phenomenon we propose to call data diversion, whereby data ostensibly generated or collected for the purpose of regulating the distribution of controlled substances were repurposed by the industry for the opposite aim of increasing sales at all costs. Systematic data diversion, we argue, contributed substantially to the scale of drug diversion seen with opioids and should become a focus of policy intervention.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Analgésicos Opioides Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Analgésicos Opioides Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article