{"id":1077,"date":"2006-08-15T06:32:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T11:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/follow-on\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T06:32:31","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T11:32:31","slug":"follow-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/follow-on","title":{"rendered":"Follow-on"},"content":{"rendered":"

More on that generic drug story I mentioned last week, with a biographical take on the CEO of Apotex<\/a>, who outmaneuvered a pair of large drug companies really badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More on that generic drug story I mentioned last week, with a biographical take on the CEO of Apotex, who outmaneuvered a pair of large drug companies really badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-pharmaceuticals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-hn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":352,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cocaines-a-hell-of-a-drug","url_meta":{"origin":1077,"position":0},"title":"“Cocaine’s a hell of a drug . . .”","author":"Gil","date":"September 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"According to the coroner, Rick James had nine different drugs in his system at the time of his death, inclduing coke, speed, valium and vicodin: \"None of the drugs or drug combinations were found to be at levels that were life-threatening in and of themselves,\" the report said. 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