News tagged with oxycontin
FDA: 'limited' benefit with tamper-proof OxyContin
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Sep 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal health officials say a new version of the painkiller OxyContin that is designed to be harder to abuse offers some improvements over the original pill.
11 people charged in Detroit painkiller scam
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Jun 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A federal indictment in Detroit says the government unwittingly paid more than $480,000 to a phony health-care business that was a front for acquiring and selling powerful painkillers as far away as Alabama.
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In 16 states, drug deaths overtake traffic fatals
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In 16 states and counting, drugs now kill more people than auto accidents do, the government said Wednesday.
Oxycodone Effective Against Shingles Pain
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Mar 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The painkiller oxycodone is effective at treating the acute pain of shingles, an illness that often causes severe pain which can become long-lasting and sometimes even permanent.
Abuse of painkillers can predispose adolescents to lifelong addiction
Sep 10, 2008 |
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No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. In new research to appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology this week, Rockefeller University researchers reveal that adolescent brains expose ...
Morphine dependency blocked by single genetic change
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Morphine’s serious side effect as a pain killer – its potential to create dependency – has been almost completely eliminated in research with mice by genetically modifying a single trait on the surface of neurons. The study ...
Overall, illicit drug use by American teens continues gradual decline in 2007
Dec 11, 2007 |
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Eighth, 10th and 12th grade students across the country are continuing to show a gradual decline in the proportions reporting use of illicit drugs, according to the 33rd national survey in the Monitoring the Future series ...
Why don't painkillers work for people with fibromyalgia?
Sep 27, 2007 |
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People who have the common chronic pain condition fibromyalgia often report that they don’t respond to the types of medication that relieve other people’s pain. New research from the University of Michigan Health System helps ...
Study focuses on prescription addiction
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Apr 23, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of California-San Francisco have started a study to evaluate treatments for addiction to prescription painkillers.
Illicit Canadian opioid use exceeds heroin
Nov 21, 2006 |
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A Canadian study shows prescription opioids have become the major form of illicit opioid use, raising questions about the nation's drug control policy.
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