Sens. Request Drug Maker's List of Reckless Prescribers

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefState senators in California and Nevada are asking embattled drug maker Purdue Pharma to make available a database it has compiled over the past 10 years identifying thousands of doctors whom the drug maker suspects were recklessly prescribing the powerful opioid painkiller OxyContin.California state Sen. Ted Lieu, chairman of the Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development, and Nevada state Sen. Richard “Tick” Segerblom, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, both sent letters asking Purdue to turn over its list of doctors with ques...