OxyContin hysteria

Posted by bobbapink on Dec 18, 2001 at 14:52
nen86-155.nosc.mil (198.253.86.155)

"Killing a Painkiller; The OxyContin hysteria inflicts pain" - "Last May a Kentucky physician reported that a former patient, a paraplegic with severe chronic pain, had killed himself. The man's new doctor, alarmed by official warnings about the prescription painkiller OxyContin, had drastically reduced his dose, leaving him in agony.

Stinginess with pain medication is not a new phenomenon. For decades pain experts have complained that many doctors are so worried about getting into trouble with state regulators or the Drug Enforcement Administration that they err on the side of letting patients suffer. The federal government's ongoing crackdown on OxyContin, egged on by a year of hysterical press coverage, is bound to make the problem worse."

Good article



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