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May 17, 2012
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Senate probes painkiller makers, allied groups
Reuters
A Senate panel has launched a probe of possible links between three drugmakers and nonprofit medical groups that advocated for increasing the use of prescription painkillers, now the target of a nationwide law enforcement crackdown. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Democrat, and the panel's leading Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, said the drugmakers and allied groups could be behind dubious marketing practices that have coincided with a huge jump in deadly overdoses from painkillers known as opioids.More

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