Studies Downplayed Risks of OxyContin

Published January 6, 2013

Studies downplayed risks of OxyContin

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But drug manufacturers and some pain specialists helped create a body of scientific research assuaging the longstanding worries about opioids and pushed to expand the use of the drugs in people with chronic pain — bad backs, arthritis, sore knees …
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Recommended: Prescription painkiller overdoses surpass 'street' drugs

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Across the country, health experts are battling a growing prescription drug epidemic that is killing almost 15,000 people a year – more fatalities than from heroin and cocaine overdoses combined. NBC's Mara Schiavocampo reports and addiction specialist Dr.
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