Sentences with phrase «from oxycontin»

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The US is suffering from a deadly opioid epidemic, especially in rural areas, thanks to the widespread use of drugs like OxyContin as painkillers.

«Contrary to the picture of helpfulness and cooperation Purdue attempts to paint, Purdue's employees were actively and secretly trying to prevent West Virginia from imposing any control on the sale of OxyContin,» the state claimed.

To not be able to stand up and walk three, four, five steps from the bedroom to the bathroom... when oxycontin, roxycontin, oxycodone, Duladid, morphine - when that doesn't help with the pain, it's serious pain.

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.

In the Chicago suit, all companies other than the Stamford, Connecticut - based manufacturer of OxyContin, Purdue, were dismissed from the suit.

DID the manufacturer of OxyContin, a controversial painkiller to which many have become addicted, withhold crucial information from regulators?

Since Purdue released OxyContin just over 20 years ago, the company has made more than $ 31 billion from it.

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.

The number of persons reporting use of Oxycontin for non-medical purposes at least once in their lifetime increased from 221,000 in 1999 to 399,000 in 2000 to 957,000 in 2001.

Common opiate prescription addictions come from drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin, Norco, Dilaudid, and Methadone.

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(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.)

The rest of the litany of bad acts recited in the indictment are standard cosa nostra fare, according to CNN, ranging from «murder to OxyContin trafficking to defrauding high - end restaurants with inflated invoices for meat orders.»

Criminal offences arising from possession, trafficking and production of drugs such as marihuana, cocaine, heroin, ketamine, methamphetamine, oxycodone and oxycontin are handed by the federal prosecution service, and are prosecuted very aggressively.