OxyContin News

OxyContin's Manufacturer's Problems Mount
Fairfield County Business Journal, August 1, 2005 4Article

Study Finds Doctors & Pharmacists Receive Limited Rx Training
USA Today, July 8, 2005 4Article

OxyContin Exposed
Source: Mansfield News, June 6, 2005 4 Article

OxyContin's Maker Under Investigation in SW Virginia
Source: Roanoke Times, June 12, 20054 Article

Frustrated lawmakers eye banning OxyContin
Source: Boston Herald, May 4, 2005 4 Article

Frustrated lawmakers eye banning OxyContin
Source: Boston Herald, May 4, 2005 4 Article

OxyContin Foes Attend Florida Trial
Source: Jointogether.org, February 16, 2005 4 Article

Dealing in Death: Bush's FDA
Source: Baltimore Chronicle, December 17, 2004 4 Article

Accidental addicts
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune Sun, 26 Sep 2004 4 Article

New Drug Helps Addicts Detox
Source: KLS News Sep. 15, 2004 4 Article

Drugmaker Purdue Pharma was still questioned in Judge James Jones' opinion
Source: The Roanoke Times August 19, 2004 4 Article

New guidelines issued to help provide better pain treatment
Source: KATU August 11, 2004 4 Article

Marlins' top pick not only athlete struggling with opiates.
Source: Post-Gazette July 29, 2004 4 Article

Drugstore robberies have increased with the popularity of OxyContin.
Source: The Fresno Bee July 10, 2004 4 Article

FDA approves generic version of OxyContin. 4 Article

Purdue Pharma, the maker of the highly profitable painkiller OxyContin, deliberately misled federal officials to win patents protecting its drug.
4 Article

The maker of OxyContin sent doctors promotional videos that made unsubstantiated claims minimizing the dangers associated with the pain relief drug, according to a GAO report released 1/22/04 (Get the GAO Report). 4Article

"Pain Killer" available from Amazon.com. Barry Meier, Pulitzer-Prize-nominated investigative reporter for the New York Times, has published a book about Purdue Pharma's scandalous marketing tactics and extensive use of propaganda to promote OxyContin-in spite of the ever-widening path of addiction, illness, pain and death following in its wake.

Rush Limbaugh is accused of having abused the prescription painkiller Oxycontin. The Drug Enforcement Agency calls OxyContin addiction the fastest growing epidemic in America... 4Article

Researchers have found that OxyContin, a powerful prescription pain reliever, and other pain medications, can lead to heroin use...4Article

Federal drug advisory panels rejects Congressional pleas to severely restrict sales of OxyContin. Purdue Pharma seeking to introduce even more powerful painkiller...4Article

Washington, D.C. - Congressman Frank Wolf today sent letters to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and to the U.S. General Accounting Office requesting an investigation of the marketing of the prescription drug OxyContin... 4Article