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- Earthtimes - Drugs causing dopamine release from brain cells to dopamine receptors on the next brain cell include pain medications like Oxycontin and Vicodin, cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, nicotine and methamphetamine. A NIDA study, revealed intravenous nicotine 0 ...
- Denver Post - It also is prescribed for post-surgery pain. Borland said he believed it was Oxycodone and not Oxycontin. Oxycontin has the same ingredients as Oxycodone but is combined with a time-release agent. Both drugs are considered addictive. Mike McPhee ...
- Los Angeles Times - He died of a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs -- among them medications that go by the brand names OxyContin, Vicodin, Valium, Xanax, Restoril and Unisom. Saddening, not surprising THE cycle of destructiveness seems to have accelerated. It was ...
- International Herald Tribune - ... not be determined until toxicology tests had been conducted, which she said would take about 10 days. Among the drugs found in Ledger's system were two widely prescribed narcotics: oxycodone, the main ingredient in the prescription drug OxyContin, and ...
- Chicago Tribune - The cause of death was "acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine," spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said in a statement. The drugs are the generic names for the painkiller OxyContin ...
- Patriot Ledger - Police said he was armed with a knife when he stole OxyContin and Percocet from the Brooks Pharmacy on Route 37. In 1997, while in state prison in Walpole for an armed robbery conviction, McGuinness pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery on ...
- Philadelphia Daily News - Thanks to Amy Westfeldt of the Associated Press, who could probably now get a job at a CVS, oxycodone is a painkiller marketed as OxyContin and used in painkillers such as Percodan and Percocet; hydrocodone is used in painkillers such as Vicodin. ...
- New York Post - By the time he got caught - after a friend saw his name in connection with a big liability case involving the painkiller OxyContin, and did some digging - he'd helped some 50 clients at the 130-lawyer firm. Valery's ruse was as time-consuming as it ...
- New York Times - Ledger’s system were two widely prescribed narcotics: oxycodone, the main ingredient in the prescription drug OxyContin, and hydrocodone, the principal pain reliever in the prescription drug Vicodin. Also in Mr. Ledger’s system were three anti ...
- New York Post - February 7, 2008 -- Heath Ledger accidentally killed himself by abusing a potent cocktail of six prescription drugs - including the active ingredient of OxyContin - and federal authorities want to know how the actor got the pills. PEYSER: Ledger Pals ...
- ABC News - In one "Intervention" episode, cameras roll as "Ryan," a young drummer addicted to OxyContin, shoots up as many as 15 times a day. And then there's "Betsy," who drinks up to five bottles of white wine a day, despite already having gone to detox ...
- Daily Herald - Nearly a decade after OxyContin slammed into southwestern Virginia and much of Appalachia, the abuse of prescription painkillers in the region is worse than ever, police and public health officials say. Publicized efforts to crack down on drug ...
- CBC News - The jury heard from Royal Newfoundland Constabulary investigators, one of whom described Buckingham as the prime target of a lengthy investigation into the street trade of OxyContin, a powerful narcotic often prescribed to cancer patients. The ...
- Union-News & Sunday Republican - Latorre was arrested in March when police seized nearly $100,000 in cash and broke up what they described as a major OxyContin and other prescription pill drug distribution system operating out of two North End businesses in Springfield. The raid ...
- Times-Argus - Gradually the drugs of choice have shifted into a new substance abuse arena – diverted pharmaceuticals, including the illegal sale and use of OxyContin and Vicodin. In fact, Sleeper said, Vermont is currently experiencing a record number of ...
- American Reporter - Its primary target is a prescription painkiller called Oxycontin, a drug in the opioid category, which the DEA says is being over-prescribed. It claims that prescriptions for this medication frequently end up being illegally sold on the street ...
- Cleburne Times-Review - ... Christ actually never called for a cut in the capital gains tax has led to the hilarious spectacle of conservative elites frothing at the mouth and gnashing their teeth at Huckabee’s success in Iowa, as reflected by Rush Limbaugh’s Oxycontin ...
- New York Times - It said that of high school seniors surveyed in 2007, 31.7 percent said they used marijuana, 5.2 percent had tried cocaine and 5.2 percent had used OxyContin, one of the few drugs for which use had increased markedly. Medical experts and law ...
- Boston Globe - What is driving the increase, specialists say, is greater access to the drug as more doctors prescribe methadone rather than the controversial and addictive OxyContin. And that access proved alluring to Christopher L'Esperance. His father said he does ...
- Patriot Ledger - ... FDA in 2002 to treat opioid abuse, is showing up in drug arrests throughout the region as addicts look for ways to stave off agonizing withdrawal symptoms, some until they can get into a program, others until they can get more heroin or OxyContin. ...
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