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Oxycontin
Health Canada Follows the FDA in Warning of Potentially Fatal Interaction between Slow-Release Painkillers and Alcohol
Aug 4, 2005
| www.newsinferno.com
Health Canada's Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD) is the Canadian federal authority that regulates pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices for...
Potentially Fatal Interaction Between Slow-Release Opioid Painkillers And Alcohol
Aug 3, 2005
| Health Canada
Health Canada is advising Canadians of serious health risks when consuming alcohol while taking any type of slow-release painkillers known as...
OxyContin's Dangers Outweigh Its Benefits
May 17, 2005
| Boston Herald
Last week, in response to mounting problems with the painkiller OxyContin, filed legislation in Congress to withdraw its Food and Drug Administration...
Frustrated Lawmakers Eye Banning OxyContin
May 4, 2005
| www.boston.com
Exasperated by the response of OxyContin drug maker Purdue Pharma, lawmakers are weighing an outright ban of the prescription chronic pain pill as...
OxyContin Marketing Tactics Go On Trial Today
Nov 1, 2004
| Charleston Gazette
Today, lawyers working for the state and a massive drug maker will begin picking the jurors who may determine the future of the painkiller OxyContin...
Kentucky's Pain
Sep 16, 2004
| Newsweek
The sun was barely up when dozens of police fanned out across the leafy, green mountains of eastern Kentucky last month. Armed with sealed...
OxyContin's Trail of Sadness
Mar 31, 2004
| Cape Breton Bureau
Many people are grieving the loss of loved ones to the prescription drug OxyContin.After reading this newspaper's story Saturday about Tanya Grant, a...
FDA Warns Oxycontin Maker Over Ads
Jan 30, 2004
| The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The maker of the controversial painkiller OxyContin placed ads in a popular medical journal that ``grossly overstate'' the drug's...
GAO: OxyContin Claims Unsubstantiated
Jan 22, 2004
| AP
The maker of OxyContin sent doctors promotional videos that made unsubstantiated claims minimizing the dangers associated with the pain relief drug,...
Conn. Spearheads Antitrust Probe Against OxyContin Maker
Jan 13, 2004
| www.jointogether.org
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is calling on other states to join an investigation into Purdue Pharma, the Stamford, Conn.-based...
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