A recent article in Fortune Magazine, November 2011, questions whether Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin - a leading brand name for prescription pain killlers sold in North America, is worth the pain it causes in terms of side effects and opioid addiction.
As always the problem looms, if not OxyContin – then what can we use.
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One of the issues with OxyContin, that consists of the active...
With support from the German Pain Association, the oxycodone painkiller Targin, manufactured by Mundipharma, is now the drug of choice for severe pain management in 13 European countries, approved in 2008 and launched in 2009.
After an expedited approval process, Targin has been used in Germany since 2006.
Targin contains the same oxycodone, an opioid narcotic, as does OxyContin, but Targin also contains...
Controversial drug manufacturer Purdue Pharma has on the 27 October sent to the medical regulator of Newfoundland and Labrador an advice that it will be phasing out the opioid analgesic OxyContin ER and replacing it with OxyNEO.
OxyNEO is still oxycodone, still the same old Oxy that has been on the prescription drug market since 1996 as a safe, time release narcotic painkiller.
The facts behind the...
At last, with a hard hitting article from CBC, Canada, OxyContin, Vicodin and methadone have been cited as being lethal drugs – contributing to:
15,000 prescription painkiller overdose deaths that are recorded in the USA as having occured in the year 2008.
In 1999, there were 4,000 deaths from prescription narcotics – rising to over three times that amount by the year 2008.
Dr Thomas Frieden...
In mainstream medicine today, OxyContin is the drug of choice for long term pain relief. Since OxyContin was introduced into the market, in 1996, it has been controversial. It is commonly agreed that opioid drugs provide effective masking of medium to high level pain, but with side effects that include unintended opioid addiction, respiratory depression, and mood swings.
The biggest factor that causes...
Dedicated users of opioids for effective pain relief will no doubt be reassured to know that a better product than OxyContin is possibly on the way. A new OxyContin pill, filled up with pellets of naltrexone, an opioid antagonist, might be ready in three years time to replace the OxyContin pills that are currently on the market.
Purdue Pharma is being sued by people for enormous sums because they say that...
People in severe pain, using Oxycontin for relief need to know if OxyContin can be addictive when used as prescribed. It is known that using OxyContin as prescribed can lead to addiction. The fact is under reported.
The facts are that the answer is yes, you can become addicted to OxyContin even though you are only using it in doses prescribed by a doctor.
There are two types of OxyContin users -...
Sometimes instead of crushing or swallowing OxyContin tablets, addicts will choose to inject. Injecting Oxy is more hazardous for various reasons and even hard core narcotics users tend to be wary of injecting OxyContin.
To use ivOxyContin means that pills have to be crushed, completely and very finely, and mixed with water to make an injectable solution. The only safe water to inject into the body is...
Hello there, are you someone who is doing drugs alone?
Do you think that solitary drug use might mean you have a problem? Wanting reassurance? Read on and see what you think.
Is there a problem when people use recreational drugs alone, rather than in the company of friends? The answer depends on you!
For some real life stories: – see article
A 2006 study, for Rand Corporation, conducted over a nine...
Brits fear a new Oxycontin (aka hillbilly heroin) epidemic in the wake of police having seized 75,000 pounds worth of Oxycontin in Belfast and Comer in late August of this year. The first Oxycontin related death in Britain was in 2002, sourced from America. The recently seized shipment of OxyContin has been imported from India
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The first confirmed British victim of Oxycontin, in 2002, was a...
