التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Inside "Operation Change Agent": Mallinckrodt's Plan for Capturing the Opioid Market. |
| المؤلفون: |
Eisenkraft Klein, Daniel1 daniel.eisenkraftklein@mail.utoronto.ca, MacKenzie, Ross2 rjmackenzie17@gmail.com ross.mackenzie@unsw.edu.au, Hawkins, Ben3 ben.hawkins@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk, Koon, Adam D.4 AdamKoon@Jhu.edu |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law. Aug2024, Vol. 49 Issue 4, p599-630. 32p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*LOBBYING, *MARKETING, *SALES personnel, *PHARMACEUTICAL industry, *ORGANIZATIONAL change, *COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE & languages, HEALTH policy, OXYCODONE, EMOTIONS, MOTIVATION (Psychology), OPIOID analgesics, PUBLIC health, HEALTH promotion |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED States |
| مستخلص: |
Context: The United States is deeply entangled in an opioid crisis that began with the overuse of prescription painkillers. At the height of the prescription opioid crisis (2006–2012), Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals was the nation's largest opioid manufacturer. This study explores Mallinckrodt's strategies for expanding its market share by promoting a new opioid. Methods: The authors used the Opioid Industry Document Archive to analyze the incentive structures, sales contests, and rhetorical strategy behind Mallinckrodt's "Operation Change Agent," a campaign to switch patients from OxyContin to Mallinckrodt-manufactured painkillers. A structured search of the archive in October 2022 retrieved 464 documents dated between 2010 and 2020. Findings: The authors identified a range of Mallinckrodt's sales force motivational techniques, including hypertargeting high-decile prescribers, providing free trial kits, using emotion-based language to connect with prescribers, and strategies for opposing prescriber resistance. Throughout, managers used specific incentivization metaphors to frame strategies in terms of sport and ultramarathons. Conclusions: This research on internal corporate strategy joins the growing challenges to industry claims that opioid sales teams simply educated providers and helped fill existing demand for their products. It has important implications for regulatory policy and consumer protections that can better protect health in the face of competitive market forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
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