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Oxycontin Addiction Media
Reports, Editorials and
Blogs
State Fights Prescription
Drug Abuse
FloridaToday.com
By Kaustuv Basu |
September 17, 2009
- At Merritt Island's Hobbs
Pharmacy, customers call
ahead if they want to fill a
prescription for OxyContin.
The powerful painkiller is
not stored on site.
Mark Hobbs said this is his
way of trying to fight
prescription drug abuse. The
family-owned pharmacy on
Banana River Drive was
robbed twice in 2007. "We
have people with a real need
for their medications," said
Hobbs, whose family has run
the pharmacy for more than
40 years. "And then there
are people who are addicted
to the stuff and desperate
for it."
In Brevard, 199 people died
from prescription drug abuse
in 2007 and 2008.
Prescription drug seizures
by the Brevard County
Sheriff's Office went up by
87 percent in 2008 compared
with the year before, from
2,895 doses to 5,406 doses.
(click
for full story)
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Mom
on drugs while pregnant
guilty of cruelty
DailyComet.com
By:
Matthew
Pleasant |
August 25, 2009
- A 30-year-old who abused
pain medicine while pregnant
and passed the addiction to
her unborn child pleaded
guilty to a cruelty charge
Monday.
Anahit Dufrene of Houma was
arrested after Leonard J.
Chabert Medical Center
doctors reported to officers
her newborn girl was
suffering from withdrawal
symptoms, deputies said.
Her daughter, now 7 months
old, is still undergoing
treatment, said Jason Lyons,
a Terrebonne Parish
assistant district attorney.
The girl and Dufrene’s two
other children are in the
custody of her husband’s
parents.
(click
for full story)
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An Open Letter to Victims of
Oxycontin
Salem-News.com
By:
Marianne
Skolek |
August 24, 2009 - In my
years of exposing Purdue
Pharma, maker of OxyContin,
for criminally marketing
their drug, I have never
been disappointed in their
efforts to gain revenue in
their promotion of the drug.
Below is a brief outline of
events and circumstances
that have left me wondering
"Do these convicted felons
have a conscience?" From the
beginning of my work, I have
wondered how the words
"under treatment of pain"
could be so freely used by
Purdue Pharma in their
marketing tactics.
I have also wondered how a
physician working for the
FDA could be involved in the
approval process of
OxyContin in the 1990's and
subsequently become employed
by the pharmaceutical
company manufacturing the
drug.
(click
for full story)
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My turn:
Prescription drug abuse can
kill
JuneauEmpire.com
By: Maya Raschel - Opinion |
April 2, 2008
- I am writing in concern of
an increasing epidemic in
Juneau, as well as the rest
of the nation. The epidemic
I am talking about is youth
abusing prescription drugs
such as OxyContin and
oxycodone.
The National Institute on
Drug Abuse's annual survey
reported in 2005 that
OxyContin use by
12th-graders was up 40
percent nationwide.
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for full story)
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Prescription drugs: legal
and lethal
Forget heroin and cocaine.
The dangerous drugs claiming
the lives and minds of the
stars are prescription
painkillers and a new class
of happy pills that doctors
are handing out by the
million
Source: TimesOnline.com
By: Robert Sandall |
February 24, 2008 - What
finally killed Heath Ledger
wasn’t heroin or cocaine.
Despite his well-publicised
problems with illegal hard
drugs in the past, the
potentially lethal compounds
found in the Manhattan
apartment of the 28-year-old
Hollywood actor after his
death in January had all
been legally prescribed.
Just another victim of the
American private-health
system, you might think, the
prescription-on-demand
culture that wiped out Elvis
Presley and Marilyn Monroe.
Not our problem.
Think again. Of the six
sedatives, painkillers and
anti-anxiety drugs Ledger
was taking, three had been
prescribed here during his
recent spell filming in
London. In common with a
growing number of young
serial drug abusers –
including his fellow film
star Owen Wilson, whose
attempted suicide last year
was attributed to a
three-day binge on the legal
painkiller OxyContin –
Ledger had moved on from
street drugs. Having been
caught on film two years ago
at the Chateau Marmont in LA
snorting a white powder, he
had discovered a less
troublesome, if no less
dangerous, route to
oblivion.
(click for full story)
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Latest Prescription Drug
Statistics Prove Compelling
Reason
for Addicts to Seek
Treatment
Source: PR Web
Published Tuesday, February
12, 2008 |
Destin, Florida (PRWEB)
February 12, 2008 -- New
research indicates that not
only is abuse of
prescription drugs killing
more people than cocaine or
heroin but that sales for
prescription painkillers are
also on the rise. According
to a recently released study
by The National Center for
Health Statistics,
"Prescription pain killers
such as Oxycontin and
Vicodin now kill five times
as many people as heroin and
almost twice as many as
cocaine."
This is a very scary
combination of events - not
only are deaths related to
prescription drugs like
OxyContin increasing, but
the availability of these
drugs have also increased
"This new research shows
clearly why it is critical
to seek help for your own or
a loved one's addiction as
soon as possible," says
Randy Ross, president of
Narconon Gulf Coast.
"People's lives are at stake
and if individuals don't
seek treatment for their own
or a loved one's
prescription drug addiction,
the result can be lethal."
In addition to research
showing a rise of
prescription drug-related
deaths, the Associated Press
has also reported on
findings from an
investigation and analysis
of federal drug prescription
data*. Findings show,
"Retail sales of five
leading painkiller drugs
nearly doubled over an
eight-year period,
reflecting a surge in use by
patients nationwide."
Oxycodone, a chemical used
in the popular prescription
drug OxyContin, has played a
large part in the increase
as, "OxyContin use jumped
nearly six-fold between 1997
and 2005."
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Pills Take Lethal Local
Toll
Source:
Herald Tribune
By: Kevin Dale
Published Sunday, February
10, 2008 |
In just a few short years, a
quiet public health crisis
caused by prescription drug
abuse has cost Southwest
Florida residents millions
of dollars.
The increasing number of
addicts has pressured state
and local government to
spend millions building and
operating new treatment
facilities.
Beyond that, there is the
difficult-to-measure impact
on public safety services --
police, emergency medical
response and jail space.
Perhaps no single agency has
been affected more than the
Sarasota-based District 12
Medical Examiner's Office,
where 20 percent of the
bodies autopsied are now
drug-related.
"I think people do shrug it
off, but it is at epidemic
levels at this point," said
toxicologist Dr. Bruce A.
Goldberger, whose University
of Florida laboratory
processes the blood tests
for hundreds of Florida's
drug-related deaths each
year.
In roughly five years, area
substance abuse treatment
centers have watched
prescription drugs alter the
way they do business.
A swell of people addicted
to oxycodone, hydrocodone
and methadone have helped
create waiting lists for
already scarce detox beds,
and prompted treatment
centers to expand:
Between 2002 and 2006,
Manatee Glens, Manatee
County's primary taxpayer
supported drug-treatment
center, doubled the money it
spends on substance abuse
treatment to $1.6 million.
(Click
for full story)
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Trends in Abuse of
Oxycotin and Other Opioid
Analgesics in the United
States: 2002-2004
Source: Science Direct
By: Theodore J. Cicero,
James A. Inciardi and Alvaro
Munoz
Published October, 2005 |
Abstract
OxyContin® (Purdue Pharma
L.P., Stamford, Conn) was
approved by the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) in
1995 as a sustained-release
preparation of oxycodone
hydrochloride and was
thought to have much lower
abuse potential than
immediate-release oxycodone
because of its slow-release
properties. However,
beginning in 2000,
widespread reports of
OxyContin® abuse surfaced.
In response, Purdue Pharma
L.P. sponsored the
development of a proactive
abuse surveillance program,
named the Researched Abuse,
Diversion and
Addiction-Related
Surveillance (RADARS®)
system. In this paper, we
describe results obtained
from one aspect of
RADARS—the use of drug abuse
experts (ie, key
informants)—as a source of
data on the prevalence and
magnitude of abuse of
prescription drugs.
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