{"id":7877,"date":"2019-08-27T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/27\/india-opioids-crisis-us-pain-narcotics"},"modified":"2019-08-27T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T07:00:06","slug":"facing-fire-over-opioid-crisis-us-drugmakers-eye-a-booming-new-pain-market-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7877","title":{"rendered":"Facing fire over opioid crisis, US drugmakers eye a booming new pain market in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As India loosens its stringent narcotics laws, US companies including Johnson &amp; Johnson, Abbott Laboratories and a network affiliated with Purdue Pharma are rushing in<\/p>\n<p>Pain, like death, is a universal phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>The grimace on the woman\u2019s face, registering her agony to Dr GP Dureja in his East Delhi office, would be recognized anywhere. Slouched shoulders, pinched forehead. She wore a willowy black kurta and cast a disapproving glance at the five pain physicians-in-training huddled behind Dureja, the founder of the Delhi Pain Management Centre and one of India\u2019s pioneering pain physicians.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/27\/india-opioids-crisis-us-pain-narcotics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As India loosens its stringent narcotics laws, US companies including Johnson &amp; Johnson, Abbott Laboratories and a network affiliated with Purdue Pharma are rushing inPain, like death, is a universal phenomenon.The grimace on the woman\u2019s face, regi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[372,62,649,648,647,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-india","category-opioids","category-opioids-crisis","category-pharmaceuticals-industry","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7906,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions\/7906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}