The Tennessean spotlights Nashville physicians who were “prescribing millions of tablets of OxyContin, then collecting much of their pay in cash.” According to a new lawsuit filed by the Tennessee Attorney General, “drugmakers not only ignored warning signs about these doctors but kept them stocked with opioids and pressured them to prescribe more pills in higher doses. encouraged pill mills to sell opioids.” A lawsuit against Purdue Pharma specifically identifies four Nashville-area physicians, all of whom have “lost their medical licenses in the past decade but were once among Tennessee’s top OxyContin-prescribing doctors.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.