OxyContin Problem- Not That Complicated

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This looks like it could be good news for many of us where pain is a

very real problem...

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This Law Enforcement Issue Should NOT Drive Medical Policy Toward

Those In Pain

A great deal has happened on the OxyContin® front in the last few

months. If you watch or read the news, you've seen stories about

excessive abuse of OxyContin® and crimes committed by individuals who

would abuse this prescription drug for `fun' as well as commit

felonies to acquire more of this very effective pain medication. You

also heard about arrests of doctors who were writing OxyContin®

prescriptions for people they knew weren't in pain and convicted for

such behavior, doctors convicted of murder when their prescribing

provided abusers with OxyContin® that resulted in death during the

abuse, and more restrictive controls on the prescription of pain

medications in some states.

The following article will be published by MAGNUM, the National

Migraine Association, very soon. It is pre-published here with the

full permission of MAGNUM.

http://headaches.about.com/library/weekly/aa-oxy-magnum.htm

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