OxyContin Files

Purdue Letter to Doctor, 1995

A Mem­ph­is doc­tor test­ing Oxy­Con­tin in 1995 al­lowed half his pa­tients to take the drug three times a day, prompt­ing a re­com­mend­a­tion from Purdue’s med­ic­al dir­ect­or to pre­scribe the drug for 12-hour dos­ing.