Showing posts with label Oxycontin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oxycontin. Show all posts
Thursday, December 17, 2009

'It's ruining people's lives': province looks at restricting Oxy

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From the Sault (Ont.) Star: First, it takes away the pain. Then it takes over your life. Pharmacist Jon MacDonald has seen the astonishing r...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

Pharmacist at a loss

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From the Sudbury Star: Pharmacist Jason Keeping is planning on having a minimal supply of OxyContin at his pharmacies after being hit twice ...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Abuse of prescribed opiate painkillers on rise, research shows

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From CBC News: A growing number of Canadians are becoming addicted to prescription painkillers such as Tylenol 3 and OxyContin, say research...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

MDs, pharmacists battling drug resellers

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From the Winnipeg Free Press: Inner-city doctors and pharmacists want the province to help them crack down on prescription-drug abuse in res...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Man charged with painkiller fraud, theft

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From United Press International: Police in Calgary, Alberta, have charged a pharmacy worker with fraud and theft related to 15,000 missing p...
Sunday, February 01, 2009

Task force taking group approach to opiate problem

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From the Fort Francis (Ont.) Times: With the abuse of prescription drugs like oxycontin on the rise, a community task force has been establi...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Two in Cochrane arrested, charged for pharmacy robbery spree

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From the Calgary Herald: Police have captured two Cochrane residents after they allegedly went on a robbery spree in the pursuit of OxyConti...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Crime spree targeting Calgary-area pharmacies

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From the Calgary Herald: Two robbers after a highly-addictive painkiller have held up at least 10 Calgary-area pharmacies, and police are co...
Saturday, January 03, 2009

Pharmacist freed on bail

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This isn't exactly a positive pharmacist story, but I will try to follow it over the next while. However, with a publication ban in pla...
Thursday, January 01, 2009

London pharmacist charged with drug trafficking

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From the London (Ont.) Free Press: A London pharmacist has been charged with trafficking oxycodone after his pharmacy was raided this week, ...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

OxyContin maker: Pills seized in C.B. weren’t the real deal

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From the Halifax Chronicle Herald: Representatives of the company that makes the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin flew to Sydney o...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

C.B. cops make big Oxy bust

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From the Halifax Chronicle Herald: Some 25,000 OxyContin pills were seized in a downtown parking lot Friday night in what the acting chief o...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Pharmaceutical drugs overshadowing heroin

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From the National Post: Heroin is fast being replaced by legal pharmaceutical drugs such as OxyContin and morphine among street users of opi...
Sunday, April 06, 2008

Database puts the squeeze on addicts who rob pharmacies

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From the Seattle Post Intelligencer: Just weeks before last Christmas, Nicholas A. Dent fed his addiction to painkillers through a relentles...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Doctors warn of potential dangers of OxyContin

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From CTV News: Canadian physicians are warning of the potential dangers of the prescription painkiller OxyContin following a high-profile ca...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Pharmacists face dilemma over dispensing narcotics: provincial board

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From the (Corner Brook, NF) Western Star: Pharmacists in this province are finding themselves in a dilemma over dispensing narcotics like Ox...
Saturday, November 17, 2007

Solutions to oxycodone addiction

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From Canoe.ca: A Wallaceburg man gets hooked on OxyContin and helps launch a $175-million lawsuit against Purdue Pharma Canada, the maker of...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Sex & drugs case hurts pain care: MDs

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From the National Review of Medicine: Whether St John's, NL, family physician Dr Sean Buckingham gave drug addicts opioid prescriptions ...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Pharmacists caught in the squeeze

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From the London (Ont.) Free Press: When the pharmacist leaves his store for a break, he makes sure to take off the white jacket that identif...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Atlantic Canadians sue makers of OxyContin

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From CTV News: More Canadians who became addicted to OxyContin are taking the maker of the painkiller to court claiming the company undersol...