OxyContin Manufacturer Pleads Guilty
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ROANOKE, Va. (AP) – A federal prosecutor says the Connecticut-based maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin and three of its current and former executives pleaded guilty to misleading the public about the drug’s risk of addiction.