Sentences with phrase «of oxycontin»

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially addiction counselors, psychologists, mental health counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about the dangers of OxyContin and other prescription drugs.

Represented a state in one of the first cases against the makers of OxyContin, helping to secure a large settlement just prior to jury selection.

Lambert was under the influence of Oxycontin and Xanax when he hit Jenkins» patrol car head - on with his 2005 GMC Sierra pickup truck.

Client charged with being in possession of $ 120,000.00 worth of oxycontin which was located underneath the drivers seat of his vehicle.

Prescription drugs crimes, including the trafficking of OxyContin (oxycodone), Dilaudid, Fentanyl and hydromorphone

Domenica Ruta grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, in a ramshackle, rundown, trash - filled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised Domenica on a steady diet of Oxycontin.

Achievement First Inc.'s Board of Directors also includes James Peyser, a senior official at the NewSchools Venture Fund; Jonathan Sackler whose family owns PurduePharma (the maker of Oxycontin); Elisa Villanueva Co-CEO for Teach For America; and Ariela Rozman the CEO of TNTP (The New Teacher Project.)

Currently, the biggest challenge facing the reservation is to reduce young people's abuse of OxyContin, a prescription pain medication, she explained.

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.

Even then, I was supplementing with small amounts of oxycontin (during the day, especially on days when I got in the shower) or carisoprodol (during the night).

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.

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

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

The companies named in the lawsuit include Purdue Pharmaceuticals — the creator of OxyContin, a prescription painkiller — Johnson & Johnson, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Endo Pharmaceuticals and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, among others.

In May 2007, federal prosecutors brought a criminal prosecution of Purdue Pharma, the Stamford, Connecticut - based maker of OxyContin.

«The Alchemy of OxyContin,» July 29, 2001 «Purdue's field reps were the first wave of OxyContin apostles, spreading word of the pill's effectiveness door to door — doctor by doctor, pharmacist by pharmacist.

I could regale you with stories of the past few years: things I never thought I would have to know but do, like the street value of OxyContin or the smell of a detox facility.

In 2007, three of Purdue's executives pled guilty to felony misbranding at the time of the release of OxyContin, and the company paid $ 600 million in fines.

Back in October, David Armstrong of STAT News wrote a mind - blowing report detailing how West Virginia health and insurance officials tried to slow the pace of prescriptions in their state, but were thwarted at every turn thanks to collusion between Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and pharmacy benefits manager, Merck Medco (which is owned today by PBM giant, Express Scripts).

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

Other students at the gathering told deputies that the victim, who was rushed to a local hospital, had ingested alcohol along with unknown amount of the pain reliever Oxycontin, the sheriff's department said.

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

That was after a Los Angeles Times report found that OxyContin wears out early in a lot of patients, making them more vulnerable to addiction.

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

Court records show that one surgeon was won over by a bunch of donuts and snacks arranged to spell OxyContin.

As the American Journal of Public Health put it in 2009: «Purdue pursued an «aggressive» campaign to promote the use of opioids in general and OxyContin in particular.»

It could also have a ripple effect on other types of substance abuse, since an estimated 80 % of new heroin users start with prescription opioids such as OxyContin — a statistic that may have contributed to the decline in prescriptions in the first place.

When our son came of age during the height of Florida's pill mill epidemic, Oxycontin and similar pain pills flooded the halls of our middle schools and high schools, offering cheap, quick escapes for teens struggling to find themselves.

Among the company's critics were officials at the Drug Enforcement Administration who said OxyContin had been a factor in hundreds of overdose deaths.

Giuliani Partners took on the job of monitoring security improvements at company facilities making OxyContin, an issue of concern to the D.E.A.

For years, Mr. Brownlee and his small team had been building a case that the maker of the painkiller OxyContin had misled the public when it claimed the drug was less prone to abuse than competing narcotics.

In 1996, Purdue Pharmaceuticals brought to market OxyContin, an «extended release» version of the opioid oxycodone.

Why did God waste a perfectly good set of vocal chords on this racists right wing oxycontin dealing self - promoting idiot?

We finally have a pope that gets to the root of much of our present woes of income inequality and corporate rapaciousness and this OxyContin cretin is compelled to blovate on the wisdom of the best pope we've seen in 50 years.

Anti-opioid activists unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles on Saturday inside the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is named for a family connected to the powerful painkilling drug 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.

Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Gillibrand said she's heard too many parents tell her how they have lost their children to opioid addiction, which began with an overprescription of painkillers like Percocet or OxyContin.

Abuse of the prescription painkillers, such as Vicodin or OxyContin, has fueled the need to address an epidemic of addiction and overdose linked to the legal drugs and their illegal cousin, heroin.

The CDC laid out new recommendations for opioid drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin, and Percocet, as the risks in the form of addiction and death outweigh their alleged benefits.

The misuse of prescription opioids such as OxyContin is inextricably linked with that of street drugs such as heroin.

With the release and aggressive marketing of the long - acting narcotic OxyContin in 1996, a class of drugs that had largely been reserved for cancer patients was becoming a go - to treatment for conditions such as lower back pain.

In mid-February 2016, Modern Healthcare took a closer look at the root of the problem and traces it back to 1996 when Purdue Pharma began promoting a new drug to fight pain — OxyContin.

Attendees were asked about nonmedical use — defined as using in a manner which is not prescribed (such as to get high)-- of 18 different opioids — including OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, codeine, fentanyl, and heroin.

Opioids are a class of drugs that include illegal drugs such as heroin and legal pain relievers including Oxycontin, Vicodin, codeine and morphine.

But the past two and a half decades have also seen the advent of blockbuster painkillers such as OxyContin, an extended - release formulation of oxycodone.

Many people who drink diet soda are trying to lose (or keep off) weight by eating healthier, and they may turn to the sweetness of diet soda for comfort as they scale back on sugar, carbohydrates, and other satisfying foods — much like a heroin addict who steps down to Oxycontin, Dr. Urschel says.

This epidemic of addiction has left millions of people dependent on illegal narcotics such as heroin, or to prescription opioid pain relievers like oxycodone (brand name: OxyContin), codeine, and morphine.

One that Purdue was pushing aggressively was OxyContin, which included the semi-synthetic opioid oxycodone, a morphine like drug based on elements of the opium poppy.

The behavioral addiction of the usage of smartphones gradually begins creating neurological brain connections in ways much like how individuals using Oxycontin for relief of pain experience opioid addiction.