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Op-Ed By Larry Golbom – Addiction: The FDA and OxyContin

Larry Golbom — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:41:53 +0000

In February 2009, the FDA announced that they would begin the process to require Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) to help curtail the misuse of the drugs referred to as opioid pain products.

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OxyContin and the Opium Epidemic of the 21st Century

Larry Golbom — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:18:15 +0000

With the dramatic increase in opium being imported into our country to make oxycodone (OxyContin), hydrocodone (Vicodin), and all the legal opium derivatives, the statistics available from a number of government agencies can help surmise the number of addicts that have been created since the introduction of OxyContin in 1996.

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The Modern Marketing of Pain

Larry Golbom — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:45:05 +0000

This is a guest editorial post written by our newest contributor, Larry Golbom R.Ph MBA of the Prescription Addiction Radio show. We encourage comments from all viewpoints in this discussion on the effects of marketing and distribution of pharmaceutical pain killers.

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Modern Pain Killers: Biggest Medical Hoax in Last 100 Years

Larry Golbom — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:28:49 +0000

This is a guest post written by our newest contributor, Larry Golbom R.Ph MBA of the Prescription Addiction Radio show: Starting in 1986, with the misinterpretation of the World Health Organization’s paper concerning terminal pain, the morphinan molecule has come back with a vengeance in the form of oxycodone (Percocet and Oxycontin) and hydrocodone (Vicodin and Lorcet).

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