Sentences with phrase «addictive oxycontin»

(A strategy pertinent to the gallery itself: Purdue Pharma, owned by the descendents of Raymond and Mortimer Sackler — Mortimer along with his wife Theresa give their name to the gallery — is accused of making billions of dollars from the sale of the highly addictive OxyContin and falsely advertising the opiate as non-addictive pain relief.)

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These devices dispense a drug called buprenorphine — itself an opioid, but one that doesn't produce the sort of euphoric and addictive high that more powerful painkillers such as OxyContin and morphine do.

One law enforcement agent said Gosnell was one of Pennsylvania's top three prescribers of the addictive painkiller Oxycontin.

It was reported in the press that the company pled guilty to pushing OxyContin by making claims that it is less addictive and less subject to abuse than other pain medications and that it continued to do so despite warnings to the contrary from doctors, the media, and members of its own sales force.

Just five years ago, a «kitchen sink» approach like Robbins might have been pooh - poohed by pain - management types, who would have been quick to prescribe hard - core, addictive drugs like oxycontin for such a serious condition.

In a landmark case, Purdue was sued in 2007 for $ 600 million for misleading the public about the addictive qualities of OxyContin, while making billions from the drug.

Officials blame this increase on the rise of addictive prescription drugs such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet, codeine, and Fentora, all of which are opioids (derivatives of opium).

I haven't heard of a single pharmacist making a fuss over dispensing erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra or highly addictive narcotics such as OxyContin.