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一 | Global consulting giant McKinsey & Company advised several painkillers producers for 15 years on how to "turbocharge" prescription drug sales largely to blame for starting the opioid epidemic in the US, The New York Times has revealed citing over 100,000 documents.,The docs emerged as a part of a settlement deal that McKinsey signed with several state attorneys that sued the company.,Apart from working with Endo, Purdue, and Mallinckrodt, the company also provided "in-depth experience in narcotics" for Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries producing controlled substances. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of US citizens died from overdose, often linked to these very drugs.,How It All Started,According to the disclosed documents, McKinsey helped both Endo and Purdue, the creators of two of the most widespread opioid-based drugs for severe chronic pain, to launch their products Opana and OxyContin in 2006-2008. The firm even advised one of the companies on how to overcome a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) block which it had encountered in 2008.,The FDA blocked Purdue's attempt to release an upgraded version of its OxyContin, which was more difficult to snort or dilute and inject in bloodstream – two methods of the prescription drug's abuse that already had been devised by some of its recipients. In order to help Purdue get the license, McKinsey interviewed an ex-drug dealer on the medication's abuse, prepared docs and even coached the drug firm's officials for meetings with the FDA as the pharmaceutical company knew its drug had been widely abused, the docs suggest.,Crack Pipes: Biden Administration's Handling of US Opioid Crisis Raising Questions, Journo Says15 February, 13:00 GMT,Purdue's main competitor, Endo, also released a new version of its painkiller and tried to get it marked as resistant to crushing (for snorting) and diluting (for injections), but the FDA did not allow the latter citing lack of such properties. Nonetheless, the drug's release was a success and coincided with a drop in abuse-resistant OxyContin's sales.,This came, however, at a cost of local epidemics of previously unseen blood disorders in several US states in 2012 – patients were found to be anemic and suffered from kidney failure. Many of them admitted to abusing updated Opana – the new formulae indeed discouraged from snorting it, but still allowed injection abuse. However, the same component that prevented crushing took a great toll on those who tried to inject the drug to get a better high, leading to red blood cells' destruction and organ damage.,Going on the 'Offensive',The consulting company's involvement in the opioid crisis did not stop at helping the companies to launch their products – it also helped them to boost the sales.,While the pills like the ones produced by Endo, Purdue and Mallinckrodt were originally advertised as not causing additions, US doctors were not always prone to prescribing them, especially when a patient's pain was neither severe nor chronic. According to the revealed documents, McKinsey's consultants helped Purdue, and several other companies, including two J&J subsidiaries, to overcome this "problem".,Starting in 2009, McKinsey developed a "segmentation" strategy for Purdue: its analysts divided the company's customers into groups based on their potential thoughts of the product and then formed distinct messages for each group. The customers in this case were doctors prescribing painkillers and the product was opioid drugs. The strategy targeted even doctors who resorted to opioids only in most extreme cases, ensuring them of OxyContin's safety and trying to convince them that there was no point in making their patients suffer.,The consulting company proposed to achieve this by "[raising] physician comfort levels through appropriate education and support". Purdue tried to convince these doctors that their colleagues had no issues prescribing OxyContin.,By 2014, the US government started to realize a nascent opioid drug problem was underway and introduced new labeling requirements for such drugs as well as instructions to use them only in cases of severe of chronic pain. Around the same time, OxyContin sales started to decline, prompting Purdue to ask for McKinsey's help once again – this time to overcome the government's policy and precautions.,The consultants identified the problem as the company promoting its drug as a less potent opioid amid rampant drug abuse and advised to shift to the "offense" instead, the documents show. They namely advised focusing the salesmen efforts on doctors, who were likely to prescribe OxyContin to a new client not previously taking opioid drugs.,"Physicians with higher OxyContin NBRx to Rx ratio may be more likely to initiate a patient on OxyContin", an extract from a McKinsey presentation for Purdue from January 2014 said.,Around the same time and amid the 2015 HIV concentrated outbreaks in several states linked to the opioid drugs abuse via injections, McKinsey consulted Endo on promoting its Opana. The company was not concerned about what the CDC named "explosive transmission" of HIV and the Opana's role in it, according to the documents. On the contrary, in summer 2015, it helped Endo rededicate most of its salesmen from other products into a "Sales Force Blitz" – the company almost solely dedicated to selling Opana to around 3,000 physicians in the US.,One of McKinsey's consultants was excited over the creation of the "Force", claiming in correspondence with the head of Endo’s painkiller unit that the "fun [begins] on Monday!" with the latter responding "agreed, the fun is just beginning".,Playing Both Sides,One of the strangest revelations in the documents uncovered by the New York Times is that McKinsey managed to play both sides of the opioid crisis tragedy – helping pharmaceutical companies sell more of "not-so-addiction-resistant" drugs, while also assisting the FDA, other government agencies and state governments, in the fight against the epidemic.,In 2017, the FDA finally decided to pull one of the drugs, the more potent Opana, from the market, but not until it made $844 million in revenue with help from McKinsey and played a role in the deaths of thousands of Americans, considered to be the victims of the opioid epidemic. Paradoxically, the same year, McKinsey Senior Partner Tom Latkovic lamented about doctors prescribing opioid painkillers left and right at a health care conference.,"Why do we continue to prescribe, dispense, pay for opioid prescriptions to people that we know, or at least we could know, have an incredibly high propensity to abuse them?" Latkovic wondered.,The bizarre divergence between what McKinsey was advising to the pharmaceutical companies and Latkovic's rhetoric is explained by the fact that he was not a member of the consulting company's pharmaceutical practice, which worked with pharma.,Instead, he and his team worked with state governments and health systems to pin down the ways of tackling the opioid crisis, The New York Times said citing two local officials, who used to work on the issue. Their work, however, was partly complicated by McKinsey's pharmaceutical wing, which wanted to greenlight their draft publications in case they could damage their clients.,North Carolina Rep. Claims Opioid Crisis 'Affects Every Community' in US Amid Drug Trafficking Surge19 December 2021, 01:36 GMT,Eventually in 2019, McKinsey finally stopped advising its top client, Perdue, but not until their ties became public during one of the litigations related to the opioid epidemic and initiated by US authorities. One such litigation eventually had McKinsey pay $600 million in settlement without admitting guilt, as well as release the documents related to its work with the pharmaceutical companies.。 3年时间,年销售额从400多万美元增长到6000多万美元,海外市场从北美拓展到欧洲和日本——这是鑫帕特娜丝(青岛)家居饰品有限公司通过单家跨境电商平台出海交出的成绩单。 “无需远赴海外参展,不再完全依托外贸中间商,一家线上店铺就能直面全球消费者、拿下海外订单。

二 | 不仅渠道和定价权掌握在自己手中,还能利用平台数据反向指导产品研发,快速拓展全球市场。”公司总经理赵静道出了传统外贸工厂转型跨境电商出海的原因。 近年来,跨境电商蓬勃发展,成为助力“中国制造”走出去的重要力量。打开山东海拓机械集团有限公司在跨境电商平台网站的页面,一场英文直播正在进行。屏幕上,一台1吨重的小型挖掘机正伸缩臂膀挖掘土方,吸引了众多海外网友“云”围观。 “很多欧美家庭挖花园、挖泳池都会用到小型挖掘机,看好这一市场前景,我们在多个跨境电商平台进行了布局。”公司首席运营官卜盼盼告诉记者,公司从最初的轻量贸易,到自建工厂做代工,再到打造独立品牌,在海外市场一点点站稳脚跟。今年以来,通过跨境电商出口货值超5亿元人民币,同比增长70%。 海拓机械集团所在的山东济宁,是我国主要的小型工程机械制造基地,这里生产的小型挖掘机在欧美电商市场占有率已超半数。

三 | 以“跨境电商+产业带”为引擎的出海新浪潮,正在众多传统产业集群中加速形成。

四 | “每一个产业带背后都是几十年沉淀下来的工艺、供应链和技术积累。

五 | ”亚马逊中国副总裁宋晓俊说,2025年,胶州假发、济宁小型挖掘机、天津地毯等产业带均实现了强劲销售增长。 跨境电商正成为推动外贸高质量发展的新动能。

六 | 海关总署数据显示,2025年,我国跨境电商进出口总值达到2.84万亿元,比上年增长4.8%。

七 | 传统外贸模式中,制造业企业只需面对少数采购商,而跨境电商卖家则要直面海量且分散的海外终端需求。

八 | 此外,跨境运输、广告投放、销售运营、售后及回款等环节环环相扣,对任何想要投身跨境电商的企业而言,都是一场硬仗。

九 | 让更多企业从“不会走、走不稳”到“走得久、走得远”,政策支持是关键。 “十五五”规划纲要指出,支持跨境电商等新业态新模式发展。 今年4月,商务部等6部门对外发布指导意见,提出发展“市场采购+跨境电商”“中欧班列+跨境电商”模式,鼓励电商企业在海外注册商标、申请专利、布局自主商标品牌等。 平台端也铆足了劲。亚马逊发布“华北产业带联合赋能计划”,未来两年将孵化500家出海品牌卖家;阿里国际站上线AI智能体,为卖家配备“24小时不休的外贸团队”…… 此外,行业协会积极助力“政策链—贸易链—产业带”深度融合。“小微企业出海仍面临跨境电商复合型人才紧缺、品牌意识不足等挑战。”山东省跨境电子商务协会秘书长吕亚萍说,协会将持续针对卖家开展培训,帮助企业完成跨境电商“从0到1、从1到N”的实操闭环,并推动惠企政策落地。

十 | (记者任军、李傲秋)。
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