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A plaintiffs group in Washington, D.C., has filed a $5.2 billion lawsuit against Purdue Pharma LP and Abbott Laboratories Inc. charging the drug companies with allegedly failing to warn patients the painkiller OxyContin is dangerously addictive.
One survey at the University of Wisconsin found one in five students have tried illicit prescription drugs.
Many pain patients become dependent on OxyContin for more than pain relief and find themselves with a full scale addition that has led to severe and damaging consequences.
OxyContin is the leading treatment for chronic pain, but officials fear it may succeed crack cocaine on the street. -- Time Magazine

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Oxycontin Abuse

OxyContin Abuse is becoming a wide spread problem in America. OxyContin is a leading treatment for chronic pain, but officials fear it may succeed crack cocaine on the street. The DEA says it is only a matter of time before every community in the country is confronted with the problem of OxyContin abuse. No prescription drug in the last 20 years has been so widely abused after its release, federal officials say. Rather than ingesting the pill as indicated, people who abuse OxyContin use other methods of administering the drug. To avoid the controlled-release, they chew, snort, or inject the medication to get an instant and intense "high". Improper prescribing practices by unscrupulous physicians are a way of diverting pharmaceuticals, according to law enforcement sources survey by the NDIC. The abuse of OxyContin, as with the abuse of most prescription drugs, creates a cycle of health care fraud. For example, a corrupt physician writes a patient a prescription for OxyContin for a nonexistent injury. The physician bills the insurance company for that, and subsequent visits. The patient uses a portion of the OxyContin and sells the rest for a substantial profit. The Huntington Drug and Violet Crime Task Force reports "There are too many doctors supplementing their
income by writing improper prescriptions."
Oxycodone is an agonist opioid. It is thought to be one of the most
effective pain relievers available. Unlike the other analgesics, opioid
agonists have an increasing analgesic effect with increased doses.
Meaning that the more you take, the better you feel. Other analgesics,
like aspirin or acetaminophen, have a threshold to their effectiveness.
You can see why OxyContin has become one of the leading painkillers of
abuse. It can potentially provide up to four times the relief of a
non-opioid analgesic.
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