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15 kwi 2020 · Oxycontin/oxycodone took over my life. It started with just taking it with a friend in high school and escalated to wanting to do it more and more.When an in...
In 2015, more than 33,000 people died from overdoses involving opioids. Every day in the United States more than 1,000 people are treated in emergency departments for not using prescription ...
28 lut 2017 · Cristin swallowed her first Oxycontin in 1998, when she was 18. Her family doctor had prescribed it after a car accident left her in constant pain from bulging disks in her lower back. Physical therapy wasn’t helping, and Cristin had heard about an amazing new pain reliever from her parents, who worked as nurses.
Derek’s involvement with opioids began innocently. In 2002, after breaking his arm playing high school football at age 17, he was prescribed Oxycontin as a normal course of pain relief. Then, playing football a year later, he broke his arm in the same place. He was prescribed Oxycontin again.
11 maj 2021 · 7:10 a.m. May 11, 2021: An earlier version of this story stated that Oxycontin has caused hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths. The CDC attributes that number to all opioids, not just...
5 maj 2016 · OxyContin is a chemical cousin of heroin, and when it doesn’t last, patients can experience excruciating symptoms of withdrawal, including an intense craving for the drug.
16 wrz 2021 · OxyContin was released in 1996 and mass-marketed as a revolutionary intervention in the medical treatment of pain. Purdue Pharma, its maker, knowingly downplayed its addictive potential. As an...
