Hydrocodone

Report: Medical Examiner Released Thousands Of Pain Pills Into Black Market

The Huffington Post | Amanda McCorquodale | Posted 02.06.2012

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More than 3,600 narcotic pills have gone missing from the Broward County Medical Examiner's office and have likely entered the local pain pill black m...

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Second Company Plans To Market Hydrocodone; Abuse Experts Worried

AP | By CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 01.13.2012

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NEW YORK -- A second drug company has confirmed it plans to market a new form of the powerful and addictive painkiller hydrocodone, worrying experts w...

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The Prescription Opiate Arms Race

Gregory Bunt, M.D. | Posted 03.10.2012

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Gregory Bunt, M.D.

Plans for the manufacture and sale of hydrocodone pills five to 10 times more potent than is now available is a warning sign of an escalation of what we might call the "prescription opiate arms race" among pharmaceutical companies.

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Powerful New Drug Has Experts Worried

AP | By CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 12.29.2011

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NEW YORK -- Drug companies are working to develop a pure, more powerful version of the nation's second most-abused medicine, which has addiction exper...

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Theodora Richards's Graffiti And Drug Case Set For Dismissal

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 06.21.2011

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NEW YORK — Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards' daughter Theodora will get her New York City graffiti and drug case dismissed in exchange fo...

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