Here is the article about the Connecticut Oxycontin case from the July 18 edition of the Connecticut Post. You'll see that the schools that produced him were MIT and Tufts.
BRIDGEPORT -- A city physician -- nicknamed "Dr. Feelgood" by police, who say he was the state's largest source of illegal prescriptions for a powerful painkiller -- was arrested in a raid on his Main Street office Tuesday.
Dr. Dudley Hall was charged with supplying OxyContin -- a prescription drug as strong as heroin -- to junkies and street dealers in the state, police said.
"It was the largest illegal OxyContin operation in the state," said Tom DeGennaro, supervisory inspector for the Chief State's Attorney's Office. "He was taking in several thousand dollars a day for prescriptions."
Police said Hall prescribed more than 70,000 pills in one seven-month period to the clients of a single state agency.
He was charged with 22 counts of illegally prescribing a narcotic substance and 14 counts of illegally prescribing a controlled substance.
Hall, 41, of Lawrence Street, was being held in lieu of $100,000 bond.
If convicted of all the charges, he could be sentenced to more than 500 years in prison.
Inspectors from the Chief State's Attorney's Office, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and officers from the state, Bridgeport and Fairfield police departments drove up Main Street in a caravan of vehicles Tuesday afternoon to the door of Hall's office in Commerce Park.
More than a half-dozen officers rushed into the office and subdued the surprised physician.
As Hall was led in handcuffs from his office, he was served with a notice from the state Department of Consumer Protection that his license to write prescriptions had been suspended, effective immediately.
Outside, Hall dove onto the floor of a Bridgeport patrol car as a throng of television camera operators surrounded the car.
Office employees in the area flocked to watch as police began carrying boxes of records from Hall's office to waiting vans.
Neighbors said Hall had been in the office park for about a year, moving there from his previous office on Clinton Avenue.
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Tufts School of Medicine, Hall advertises in the phone book that he provides a wide variety of services.
"Being a physician means helping people and solving their problems with my knowledge of science -- but it also means treating people's concerns and needs with genuine care. I enjoy doing both very much," Hall states in the advertisement.
Police said Hall provided prescriptions for OxyContin, Xanax, Tussionex and Percocet to hundreds of people, with no questions asked. They said he was well known to junkies and drug dealers throughout the state as an illegal source for prescription drugs.
"A typical $400 prescription for OxyContin could easily turn over to $2,000 to $4,000 on the street," DeGennaro said.
Hall resigned his staff position at St. Vincent's Medical Center last December. He is being sued by Tufts University for $67,411.96 the school claims he owes for tuition.
According to the arrest warrant affidavit, from October 1999 to April 2000 Hall prescribed 19,000 OxyContin tablets, 26,000 Percocet tablets and 28,000 Xanax tablets to state Department of Social Services patients, making him the leading source of OxyContin to DSS recipients in the state.
Between June 8 and July 6 of this year, undercover officers posing as patients went to Hall's office on 16 occasions, the affidavit states. After paying an initial "office fee," they would get from Hall a prescription for OxyContin or any of the other drugs without being examined. Refill prescriptions cost an additional $50 cash.
DeGennaro said that, in some cases, Hall gave the undercover officers prescriptions for several drugs which, if taken in combination, could have caused their deaths.
OxyContin, manufactured by Purdue Pharma in Stamford, has become popular with drug abusers across the country who say it brings a high like heroin if crushed and snorted. Abuse of the drug has been linked to more than 120 deaths nationwide.
DeGennaro said people who got prescriptions for the drug from Hall have attempted to have them filled at pharmacies in New London, New Haven, Hamden and Hartford. When pharmacies stopped taking Hall's prescriptions, he began doing business with mail-order companies, DeGennaro said.
