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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.
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.
The annual number of new users of pain relievers non medically has also been increasing since the mid-1980s when there were roughly 400,000 initiates. In 2000, there were an estimated 2.0 million.
Reliable strength, potential prescription cost coverage, and significant profit potential make OxyContin attractive to both illicit distributors and abusers.

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Injecting
OxyContin 
 Individuals
who abuse OxyContin by injecting the crushed tablets quickly become addicted.
Injecting OxyContin requires a preparation regimen similar to that of heroin.
This allows the abuser to receive the full effect of the pure Oxycodone almost
immediately. This creates an effect similar to illicit opioid narcotics, such
has heroin. Such a regimen requires the removal of the tablet coating by either
sucking on it or scraping it with the teeth or a razor blade, followed by melting
the remainder on a spoon, adding water, and then injecting the solution. Dissolving
and injecting the contents of OxyContin can slow down or stop breathing and
lead to death. Injecting OxyContin can also kill the tissue around the injection
site and trigger heart and lung problems.
Abuse of prescription pain medications is not new. Two primary factors, however,
set OxyContin abuse apart from other prescription drug abuse. First, OxyContin
is a powerful drug that contains a much larger amount of the active ingredient,
oxycodone, than other prescription pain relievers. By crushing the tablet and
either ingesting or snorting it, or by injecting diluted OxyContin, abusers
feel the powerful effects of the opioid in a short time, rather than over a
12-hour span. Second, great profits are to be made in the illegal sale of OxyContin
A 40-milligram pill costs approximately $4 by prescription, yet it may sell
for $20 to $40 on the street, depending on the area of the country in which
the drug is sold.
Injecting OxyContin creates a mindset in which the only goal of the individual
is to obtain more of the drug. Interest in work, family and personal well being
simply disappears. The individual often develops a drug-seeking behavior in
which jobs, family, friends will all be sacrificed in an effort to obtain money
to buy more OxyContin Thefts of money or items to sell from family members are
all too common. Some result to prostitution or other criminal acts to fund their
habit. OxyContin has a street sale value of one dollar per milligram.
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