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Gracia Mayard, Queens doctor, runs from authorities in oxycodone prescription case

Pharmacy tech with hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets,

Photo credit: AP, 2010 | Pharmacy tech with hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, the generic version of Vicodin.

A Queens doctor on the run from Nassau County and federal investigators was charged Tuesday with illegally distributing hundreds of thousands of pills of the prescription painkiller oxycodone on Long Island and in Queens.

Gracia L. Mayard, 61, a physician with offices in his home in Cambria Heights and in Forest Hills, surrendered his license to prescribe controlled substances in February...

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