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  1. http://www.sdentertainer.com/news/oxycontin-epidemic-plagues-north-county-youth/ 5/20/10
  2. http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article1096463.ece  5/19/10
  3. Monday, May 03, 2010
    OxyContin changes may cut overdoses
    Los Angeles Times
              WASHINGTON — The painkiller OxyContin can be plenty dangerous…     http://www.abqjournal.com/health/03211445698health05-03-10.htm
  4. Heroin Stalks City Teens By Story Jeff Proctor
    Copyright © 2010 Albuquerque Journal Of the Journal
              Steve Paternoster watched his 16-year-old daughter, Haley, fight for her last few breaths in a hospital emergency room. In the end, the heroin won.
            Craig Weatherfield got a knock on his door and stood quietly as a police chaplain and three other officers told him what he had known the moment he saw their faces and uniforms: that his 20-year-old son, Nathan, had lost his battle with heroin.
            Nathan and Haley had struggled with drugs on and off. Both had tried to get clean.
            Haley died April 9, around 3 a.m. Nathan died Monday… morning.    http://www.abqjournal.com/news/metro/18222454metro04-18-10.htm
  5. An Albuquerque emergency room doctor says he has watched the number of young people overdosing on heroin steadily climb during the past several years…..http://www.allbusiness.com/medicine-health/medical-science-epidemiology/14356708-1.html       

  6. Investigating Opiate-Overdose Deaths
    By Todd F. Prough, M.A.  (to read more click on the link below)    http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/2009/april2009/overdose.htm 
  7.  A 14 year old girl was arrested today, on reckless homicide charges, for any part she had in the Oxycodone overdose death of Alexander Aiken of Edgerton, WI.  (To read more click>>) http://www.wifr.com/news/headlines/86367207.html
  8. A 13 yr old death from Rx! click to read more…..http://www.channel3000.com/news/22538604/detail.html

  9. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many teenagers may be sharing their prescription medications with their friends, putting them at risk of drug side effects or having a health problem go undiagnosed, a new survey finds.

    The survey, of 592 12- to 17-year-olds from across the U.S., found that 20 percent admitted to having lent a prescription drug to a friend, while a similar percentage said they had done the borrowing.

    The most commonly shared prescriptions were allergy drugs and narcotic pain relievers like Oxycontin and Darvocet, followed by antibiotics, acne medications like Accutane, and mood drugs such antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications.

    What’s more, the study found, three-quarters of prescription “borrowers” said they did so instead of seeing a doctor.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_88306.html

  10. WASHINGTON — Fewer people abused prescription drugs last year than in 2007, reversing an upward trend in abuse of potent painkillers such as Oxycontin, a federal drug survey found.

    People who once saw little risk in abusing prescription drugs are responding to health reports underscoring dangers of misuse, says Eric Broderick, acting administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which conducts the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health made public Thursday.  To read More:  http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-09-10-drug-survey_N.htm

  11. http://www.topix.com/drug/oxycontin
  12. Prescription Drug Deaths Rise in West Virginia … Prescription Drug Deaths Rise in West Virginia. … Virginians are dying in the quiet epidemic, mostly from prescription painkillers such as OxyContin, Vicodin and …
    (January 28, 2008)
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18489450
  13. OxyContin Hearing Prompts Tearful Testimony … In this coal country of Southwest Virginia, more than 200 deaths have been attributed to OxyContin. The government began its case back in 2001. …
    (July 21, 2007)
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12144945
  14. OxyContin Addiction Case Yields Millions in Fines … myself here noticed a major uptick in the number of deaths and the number of crimes related to opiate drugs, the principal of which was OxyContin,” Masello says …
    (May 10, 2007)
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10118248
  15. Overdose Rescue Kits Save Lives … and opiates, such as Oxycontin, kill more drug users than AIDS, hepatitis or homicide. Now, public health workers are preventing thousands of deaths by giving …
    (January 02, 2008)
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17578955
  16. Painkiller Abuse Dan Heyman of West Virginia Public Radio reports that more than a hundred deaths across the country have been linked to a powerful painkiller called Oxycontin. …
    (June 28, 2001)
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1125072
  17. Implications of the Medical Marijuana Ruling … my opinion, cannabis is a lot more like aspirin than OxyContin, for instance. … Centers for Disease Control, there are about 400,000 tobacco-related deaths a year …
    (June 07, 2005)
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4683604
  18. Chris Arnold … of teenagers abusing the powerful and highly addictive painkiller Oxycontin – more than … Authority Police department, as they struggled with the deaths of 37 …
    (August 21, 2009)
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100196
  19. NPR: The Land of Weed… Cannabis, Zero Deaths in more than 5000 years of use. … tried their best to get me to take heavy narcotics such as: codeine, vicodin, fentanyl and oxycontin. …
    (August 18, 2008)
    http://www.npr.org/blogs/daydreaming/2008/08/the_land_of_weed.html

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Posted: Wednesday, 08 July 2009 4:24AM

Patients Fret Over Proposed Tylenol Limits
Washington (AP)  — Proposed limits on Tylenol, a painkiller as common as pain itself, have left many consumers fearful, confused and wondering where to turn for relief.The potential government crackdown on acetaminophen, Tylenol’s main ingredient, would affect everyone from occasional pill poppers to chronic pain sufferers who rely on daily doses to make their lives more bearable.If adopted by the Food and Drug Administration, the changes would lower the maximum over-the-counter Tylenol dose and would ban two narcotic painkillers, Vicodin and Percocet, which also contain acetaminophen. To read more….Click on http://www.wwj.com/pages/4759030.php?                   

 

 

Fentanyl - The Deadliest Dealer Additive: If you’re involved with heroin, or you’re concerned about someone who is, if you read nothing else here, READ THIS.  About every two or three years, a cycle seems to kick in within “heroin user communities” where dealers will start experimenting with “cutting” their supply of heroin by adding ingredients to it.  Ideally, the idea of “cutting” any drug is to end up with more of the drug while maintaining or boosting it’s potential effect.  In other words, they begin to figure out how they can deliver the maximum “high” to keep their customers coming back, while maintaining maximum profit to keep their pockets full of cash….TO READ MORE..http://www.allpositiveoptions.com/Heroin2.htm   

Lofexidine Reduces Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms

(NIDA ADDICTION RESEARCH NEWS) January 12, 2009

Medications such as methadone and buprenorphine are effective in helping drug-dependent individuals detoxify from heroin, morphine, and other opioid drugs. These medications are also opioids, however, and some individuals undergoing therapy for opioid addiction might prefer treatment with nonopioid medications. Investigators funded by NIDA performed a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of lofexidine, a nonopioid medication that has shown promise in the treatment of opioid withdrawal. The investigators enrolled 68 participants addicted to heroin, morphine, or hydromorphone into the study. After a 3-day period where all patients were placed on a fixed dose of morphine, investigators randomly assigned the patients either to 5 days of lofexidine treatment or to the placebo control group. Patients receiving lofexidine had fewer and less severe withdrawal symptoms than those receiving the placebo-this difference was so substantial that the trial was stopped early, as it was deemed unethical to continue giving patients the placebo in light of the benefits of lofexidine. Patients in the lofexidine group experienced more side effects such as loss of strength, dizziness, low blood pressure, and trouble sleeping; however, fewer patients in the lofexidine group discontinued treatment prematurely compared to the placebo group. “As a detoxification agent, lofexidine would represent a considerable advance over other detoxification medications currently approved for this use…because it is not a narcotic and is not considered to be an addictive drug,” conclude the authors.

Yu E, Miotto K, Akerele E, Montgomery A, Elkashef A, Walsh R, Montoya I, Fischman MW, Collins J, McSherry F, Boardman K, Davies DK, O’Brien CP, Ling W, Kleber H, Herman BH. A Phase 3 placebo-controlled, double-blind, multi-site trial of the alpha-2-adrenergic agonist, lofexidine, for opioid withdrawal. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2008;97(1-2):158-168.

Click below on other news:

States pull back after decades of get-tough laws  

Broward’s pill mills: Clinics multiply, drug overdoses climb ~ Florida

Instead of calling 911, they took pictures of 21 y/o Kyla Helvey ~ Washington

ER Show based on the death of 17 y/o Shelby Lyn Allen ~ California  

http://www.theantidrug.com/pdfs/prescription_report.pdf

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/40581812.html

http://www.injuryboard.com/national-news/prescription-drug-deaths-soar.aspx?googleid=29488

(click below )tp://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/02/16/teensarrest_0217_web.html

(click below to read on FDA Seeks Better Regulation on Painkillers)http://news.health.com/2009/02/10/fda-seeks-better-regulation-painkillers/

(click below to read about a mom helping other parents cope with drug deaths)http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/02/05/drug_death_parent.html

(click here to read the latest news on Rx epidemic >>)  http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release-rss/prescription-drug-abuse-and-addiction-rising-during-recession-85558.php

(click below to read on overdose problem/Daniel McCarthy’s (16 yrs old) story>>)  http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/29/our_overdose_problem

(click here on fentanyl overdose >)  http://www.mesomorphosis.com/blog/2008/02/28/erik-fromm-died-from-accidental-fentanyl-overdose/

*Remoxy XRT:  OxyContin’s newest and latest competion! 

(clickbelow to read for more information)http://www.topix.com/content/prweb/2008/11/fda-scheduled-to-review-remoxy-xrt-the-newest-of-oxycontins

(click below to read on Ledger Death on Accidental Overdose)  http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20176256,00.html ;  http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=86971

Updated: Monday, 08 Jun 2009, 1:06 PM MDT
Published : Monday, 08 Jun 2009, 12:49 PM MDT