Mapping corrupt pharmacies and pill mills
Purdue Executives Sworn Testimony — congressional 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.”
Purdue Internal Security & Sales Audits — internal 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.”
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.
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.