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Oxycontin Abuse

Kathleen Miles

Shocking Prescription Drug Ring

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 10.19.2012 | Los Angeles
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A federal grand jury has charged 16 defendants with running an Oxycontin trafficking operation in Southern California in a superseding indictment anno...

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WATCH: How America Got Hooked On OxyContin

Posted 11.26.2012 | Home
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The highly addictive painkiller OxyContin is the top selling branded drug in its category, raking in over a billion dollars last year. HuffPost Live h...

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A World of Hillbilly Heroin

Chris Hedges | Posted 10.21.2012 | Books
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Drug overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in West Virginia, and the state leads the country in fatal drug overdoses. OxyContin -- nicknamed "hillbilly heroin" -- is king.

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OxyContin Abuse Is Down, But Is Increasing Abuse Rates Of This Illicit Drug

Reuters | Posted 09.10.2012 | Crime
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By Gene Emery July 11 (Reuters Health) - U.S. drug abusers may be more likely to turn to heroin now that they are finding it harder to...

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Drug Trafficking & Medicare Fraud Collide In Landmark Case

Posted 12.17.2011 | Los Angeles
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Story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Bernice Yeung As the country grapples with an explosion in prescription drug abuse, California ste...

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The (Surprising) U.S. State On The Front Lines Of Rx Drug Abuse

Posted 06.21.2011 | Home
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It was yet another pharmacy robbery in the small town of Sanford, Maine, where a woman claiming to have a gun said she would shoot if she didn't g...

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White House Takes On America's Deadliest Drug Abuse Problem

AP | By CURT ANDERSON | Posted 06.20.2011 | Home
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MIAMI -- The White House drug czar wants doctors, states and law enforcement working harder to stop America's deadliest drug-abuse problem: highly add...

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