Purdue Pharma has privately identified about 1,800 doctors who may have recklessly prescribed the painkiller to addicts and dealers, yet it has done little to alert authorities.
Over the last decade, the maker of the potent painkiller OxyContin has compiled a database of hundreds of doctors suspected of recklessly prescribing its pills to addicts and drug dealers, but has done little to alert law enforcement or medical authorities.
via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/z-JzuQYqoAA/la-me-rx-purdue-20130811,0,3318136.story
Over the last decade, the maker of the potent painkiller OxyContin has compiled a database of hundreds of doctors suspected of recklessly prescribing its pills to addicts and drug dealers, but has done little to alert law enforcement or medical authorities.
via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/z-JzuQYqoAA/la-me-rx-purdue-20130811,0,3318136.story
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