Sentences with phrase «pushing 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.
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'' «We were screaming at the wall,» said Tom Susman, who headed the state's public employee insurance agency in the early 2000s and led the push to limit OxyContin prescribing in West Virginia.
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 use of heroin has become a replacement for opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin, after the push to end these prescription drugs.