even established journalists occasionally get “sloppy.” When Dezenhall and his associates began to investigate, they found cracks in Bloodsworth’s reporting. Two of the people she wrote about and described as having “accidentally” become addicted turned out to have abused drugs in the past. A close study of Bloodsworth’s data on overdose deaths demonstrated that while OxyContin might have been in the systems of many of those who died, there were often other drugs present as well. So why single out OxyContin? Udell discussed bringing a libel action against the Sentinel, suggesting that he had a
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