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The best part of the article: "Dr. Curtis Wright, who led the agency’s medical review of the drug, declined to comment for this article. Shortly after OxyConti

• dcwca 10y ago
  What does it say?
  • niels_olson 10y ago
    It strongly implies he received favoritism in hiring after a Purdue drug was approved. It's a revolving door problem between regulators and industries they regulate.
  • imglorp 10y ago
    It is the appearance of impropriety, straight out of any corporate anti-bribery ethics training. In this case, it appears they offered a cushy job to a government official in exchange for favorable regulatory treatment, leading a very lucrative business. It appears dirty but maybe can't be proven.
    • alttab 10y ago
      Another way to look at it was in working with Purdue, he was able to demonstrate his ability to define and walk around FDA approvals by understanding and guiding product language to get approval. This is a valuable skill. Purdue probably wanted someone like that on their product development team who could influence drug design early on which would make it less costly and more efficient to get drugs approved in the future. It's all business. Every actor wants more money and power, and are willing to play to their strengths to get there. No malice, obvious corruption, or bribery would even need to take place. Just smart motivated people trying to make a ton of money .... (without caring about the consequences).
      • saulrh 10y ago
        > Another way to look at it was in working with Purdue, he was able to demonstrate his ability to define and walk around FDA approvals by understanding and guiding product language to get approval. Isn't subverting the system like that almost as improper as doing it from the other side? Not as obviously, possibly not as strongly, but from having been in research myself, knowing the little details like that is often good enough to get things through all by itself, completely without regard for whether your research works.
        • ThePaco 10y ago
          I don't think so because the government created a regulatory environment that requires drug companies to find people like this that know how to get their drugs approved.
          • digler999 10y ago
            > a regulatory environment that requires the regulatory environment only "requires" this if your drug doesn't work as advertised. The other way to get your drug approved is to, you know, not make phony claims about its efficacy.
            • paul_f 10y ago
              If you don't know how and when and where and exactly what format to file your documents, you don't get approval. Simply working isn't sufficient. It's a complex process and having well connected experts is of extreme value.
        • VonGuard 10y ago
          Happens ALLLLLLLL the time, though. Improper or not, look around at corporate America and you'll find a lot of people who were regulating a company as a government agent, then soon there after, work for the firm they were regulating.
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    • aphelion 10y ago
      Had he denied the application it could just as easily be said to have shown his expertise in the regulatory approval process by detecting and rejecting a dangerous drug. And yet, I don't think that display of competence would have landed him a job at Purdue.
  • Perixoog 10y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_%28politics%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_%28politics%29
  • chinathrow 10y ago
    That the revolving doors work well.
  • bramen 10y ago
    Quid pro quo. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours 2 years later.
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• Futurebot 10y ago
  Yup. Regulatory capture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture Cultural capture: https://baselinescenario.com/2016/04/22/cultural-capture-in-black-and-white/ https://baselinescenario.com/2016/04/22/cultural-capture-in-... The revolving door between government and the private sector: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/slowing-the-revolving-door-between-public-and-private-jobs/ http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/slowing-the-revolving...