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Exit|3 of 3 in Purdue Pharma & The Sacklers
testimony-gappharma·2002 / unsealed 2007

Mapping corrupt pharmacies and pill mills

The Public Register2007
Purdue Executives Sworn Testimonycongressional testimony, US Senate Judiciary Hearing on Prescription Drug Abuse
Purdue had no insight or mechanism to know whether legitimate pharmacies were being utilized for illicit diversion. When we discovered suspicious prescribers, we acted promptly.
The Private Artifact2002
Purdue Internal Security & Sales Auditsinternal compliance records, Internal Diversion Database Entries
Doctor X in Myrtle Beach is prescribing hundreds of thousands of 80mg tablets per month with cash-only queues around the block. Sales reps noted the clinic is a blatant pill mill, yet orders were approved and deliveries expedited to meet quarterly budget targets.
Exhibit: OIDA_Purdue_Audit_DoctorX_2002

The Split:Under oath to the Senate, executives claimed they had no ability to detect rogue doctors. Their own internal computer databases explicitly tracked known pill mills with lines out the door, while management expedited supply to make quarterly revenue targets.

The Tell (How to spot this next time):

When a distributor swears under oath that it lacked data to detect illegal volume, check its internal sales leaderboard: the rogue customers were usually ranked number one.

court pipeDisclosed in UCSF Opioid Industry Documents Archive.