This article is about the medication. For the natural peptide, see Oxytocin. Not to be confused with Oxycontin. This article needs more reliable medical references for verification or...
OxyContin is an opioid (narcotic) pain medication used to relieve severe ongoing pain that is not controlled by other pain treatments. OxyContin contains oxycodone, a strong pain reliever that helps reduce pain by activating opioid receptors in the nervous system. OxyContin is an extended-release tablet that is taken every 12 hours regularly, it is not for occasional use or to be taken “as needed” for pain. As it is a long-acting opioid pain medicine it can put you at risk for overdose and death. ...
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of OxyContin to Morphine, Documents Show Richard Sackler worked to ensure OxyContin didn’t develop the end-of-life... market OxyContin. Photo: george frey/Reuters Continue reading your...
name, OxyContin. The Sacklers developed aggressive marketing tactics persuading doctors to... dispensing medication "without a legitimate medical purpose." Members of the Sackler family...
U.S. health regulators announced on Tuesday that they will not approve any generic versions of the original form of the pain medication OxyContin, which was widely abused because it could be crushe...
four medication-related demises. Because of the high rate of abuse, Purdue stopped sending the original form of OxyContin to pharmacies in August 2010. The new formula is harder to crush...
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Highlights of Prescribing Information ; These highlights do not include all the information needed to use OXYCONTIN safely and effectively. See full prescribing information for OXYCONTIN. OXYCONTIN (oxycodone hydrochloride) extended-release tablets, for oral use, CII Initial U.S. Approval: 1950
From time to time, OxyContin abuse flares up as a hot topic around the water cooler. If it isn't celebrities in the news for abusing the prescription painkiller, it's reports of drug-dealing doctors and overdose deaths. Add to that a law enforcement crackdown on OxyContin, and the result is a backlash affecting legitimate use of the drug: Many chronic pain sufferers won't take OxyContin for fear of becoming addicted, and some health care providers refuse to write OxyContin prescriptions for fear...