L.A. Times Reveals that Purdue Pharma Knowingly Concealed Database of Bad Doctors

Marianne Skolek Salem-News.com-Aug-15-2013

Purdue Pharma has reaped close to $30 billion in profits since the launch of OxyContin in 1996. Some of these profits were gained from the doctors on a list that Purdue Pharma has not released to authorities.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - This week "L.A. Times" reporters Scott Glover and Lisa Girion broke a news story that the maker of the deadly drug, OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, has a list of "about" 1,800 doctors who may have recklessly prescribed the highly addictive drug to addicts and dealers.  The problem is Purdue Pharms has not been alerting authorities to their list of "bad docs."  Here is the link to the 

articlehttp://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rx-purdue-20130811,0,1420977.story.

OxyContin maker closely guards its list of suspect doctors

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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.

By Scott Glover and Lisa Girion

August 11, 2013, 7:00 a.m.

Over the last decade, the maker of the potent painkillerOxyContin 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.

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