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OxyContin maker closely guards its list of suspect docs

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Posted: August 12, 2013 - 2:30 pm ET

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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.

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