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OXYCONTIN News:
20070820
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Drug
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 Money
- OxyContin
-  Law
- "AP:
Pain medicine use has nearly doubled." ... "Retail
sales of five leading painkillers nearly doubled over the last eight years,
reflecting a surge in use by patients nationwide who are living in a world
of pain, according to a new Associated Press analysis of federal drug prescription
data." ... "More than 200,000 pounds of codeine, morphine, oxycodone [brand:
OxyContin], hydrocodone [brand: Vicodin] and meperidine [brand: Demerol]
were purchased at retail stores during 2005, the most recent year represented
in the data. That is enough to give more than 300 milligrams of painkillers
to every person in the country." ... "Oxycodone, the chemical used in OxyContin,
is responsible for most of the increase. Oxycodone use jumped nearly six-fold
between 1997 and 2005. The drug gained notoriety as "hillbilly heroin,"
often bought and sold illegally in Appalachia." ... "The privately held
company [Purdue Pharmaceuticals] has pleaded guilty to lying to patients,
physicians and federal regulators about the addictive nature of the drug."
-By Frank Bass with contributions by Dave Collins
and Samira Jafari -AP
via -Yahoo
20070801
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Michael
J Elston
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 Alberto
R Gonzales - Paul
J McNulty
-  Government
- US
Attorneys - OxyContin
- Drug
- Manufacturer
- Money
-  Politics
-  Virginia
- "U.S.
Attorney Became Target After Rebuffing Justice Dept.."
... "The night before the government secured a guilty plea from the manufacturer
of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, a senior Justice Department official
called the U.S. attorney handling the case and, at the behest of an executive
for the drugmaker, urged him to slow down, the prosecutor told the Senate
Judiciary Committee yesterday." ... "John L. Brownlee, the U.S. attorney
in Roanoke [Virginia], testified that he was at home the evening of Oct.
24 when he received the call on his cellphone from Michael J. Elston, then
chief of staff to the deputy attorney general and one of the Justice aides
involved in the removal of nine U.S. attorneys last year." ... "Brownlee
settled the case anyway. Eight days later, his name appeared on a list
compiled by Elston of prosecutors that officials had suggested be fired."
... "Brownlee ultimately kept his job. But as Attorney General Alberto
R. Gonzales confronts withering criticism over the dismissals, the episode
in the OxyContin case provides fresh evidence of efforts by senior officials
in the department's headquarters to sway the work of U.S. attorneys' offices."
... " ... Elston's attorney, Robert N. Driscoll, said his client had telephoned
Brownlee at the direction of [Deputy Attorney General Paul J.] McNulty,
who that evening had received an appeal for more time by Mary Jo White,
a defense lawyer representing an executive for OxyContin's manufacturer,
Purdue Pharma." -By Amy Goldstein and Carrie Johnson
-WashingtonPost
20070511
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Rudolph
Giuliani - Drug
- Money
- Politician
- Law
- Election
2008 - Virginia
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 Conn
- "Giuliani
backed drug company that misled public." ... "In
a case that could stoke unwelcome interest in one of [2008 election Republican]
presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani's first private consulting contracts,
the maker of the controversial painkiller OxyContin and three top executives
pleaded guilty yesterday to misleading the public about addiction risks."
... "In the plea deal, Purdue Pharma of Stamford, Conn., and the three
current and former officials agreed to pay $634.5 million in fines for
falsely claiming between 1995 and June 2001 that its drug was less addictive
than other painkillers." ... ""Purdue unleashed a highly abusable, addictive
and potentially dangerous drug on an unsuspecting and unknowing public,"
said Virginia U.S. Attorney John Brownlee at a news conference in Roanoke
[Virginia]." ... "Giuliani and his consulting firm Giuliani Partners have
represented Purdue since January 2002, the same month the former mayor
left office and a time when both regulatory and public concerns were cresting
over a drug that brought in more than $1 billion a year but also had been
linked to hundreds of deaths and produced a plague of abuse and addiction."
-By John Riley -Newsday.com
20070510
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Rudolph
Giuliani - Bernard
Kerik - Drug
- Money
- Politician
- Government
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 Med
-  Enforcement
-  New
York
- Election
2008 - "OxyContin:
The Giuliani Connection." ... "[2008 election Republican
Presidential candidate] Rudolph Giuliani and his consulting company, Giuliani
Partners, have served as key advisors for the last five years to the pharmaceutical
company that pled guilty today to charges it misled doctors and patients
about the addiction risks of the powerful narcotic painkiller OxyContin."
... "Federal officials say the company, Purdue Frederick, helped to trigger
a nationwide epidemic of addiction to the time-release painkiller by failing
to give early warnings that it could be abused." ... "Prosecutors say "in
the process scores died."" ... "Drug Enforcement Administration officials
tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com Giuliani personally met with the head of
the DEA when the DEA's drug diversion office began a criminal investigation
into the company." ... "According to the book "Painkiller," by New York
Times reporter Barry Meier, both Giuliani and his then-partner Bernard
Kerik "were in direct contact with Asa Hutchinson, the administrator of
DEA."" ... "Meier wrote that "with Giuliani now in the mix, the pace of
DEA's investigation into Purdue's OxyContin plant in New Jersey slowed
as Hutchinson repeatedly summoned division officials to his office to explain
themselves and their reasons for continuing the inquiry."" -By
Brian Ross, Richard Esposito, and R. Schwartz
-ABCNEWS.com
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