Articles, tagged with "oxycontin", page 1
15th May 2009
OxyContin addiction is the new doorway drug to ruined careers and lost lives, even when it begins as a legitimate prescription for the pain of injury and illness.
Thousands of Americans are becoming dependent and addicted to the opioid painkiller OxyCo...
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Author:
Rod MacTaggart
04th March 2009
Giving someone a methadone addiction is like putting that person in a prison where they are not confined by walls but by their dependence on the drug, says a detox expert, and getting off the drug is like getting out of jail.
Using the highly-addictive...
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Author:
Rod MacTaggart
06th August 2007
You may have heard about a drug called Actiq - a berry-flavored lozenge on a stick that looks and tastes like a lollipop. It was approved by the FDA for cancer patients only, but is being prescribed for everything from migraines to back pain, and has foun...
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Author:
Rod MacTaggart
15th November 2006
You may not realize this but before buprenorphine treatment with suboxone or subutex was available, it was extremely difficult to treat opiate addiction outside of a hospital based detox. This all changed in 2002 when buprenorphine became legally availabl...
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Author:
Stephen Gilman, M.D.
