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OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone

OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic).

Results 1 - 20 of 2,263 in OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic)

  1. Feds bust huge PalmBeach County oxycodone operationRead the original story

    47 min ago | Palm Beach Post

    It was the largest such prescription drug-selling operation yet dismantled, according to federal court documents and three sources with knowledge of the investigation.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Palm Beach County, FL, Florida, Drugs, Palm Beach, FL

  2. Sherry Johnston, Levi's mother, is sentenced to 3 years...Read the original story w/Photo

    2 hrs ago | Free Republic

    Sherry Johnston was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for dealing the prescription painkiller OxyContin.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Wasilla, AK, Hiland Mountain Correctional Center, State Prisons, Prison

  3. Reality TV winner asks bail until trialRead the original story

    2 hrs ago | Worcester Telegram & Gazette

    The winner of the CBS reality television show 'Big Brother 9,' accused of trying to sell a powerful prescription painkiller, is again asking to be released on bail until his trial.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Drugs, Delray Beach, FL

  4. Media has significant role in drug deathsRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday Nov 18 | Examiner.com

    Opioid-related news media reports and poisoning mortality, 1999 - 2005, United States.

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    Related Topix: Drugs, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Medicine, Health, Pain

  5. Longmont police officer charged with feloniesRead the original story

    8 hrs ago | Boulder Daily Camera

    Jack Kimmett, Longmont police officer A Longmont police officer who was arrested last week on suspicion of giving prescription drugs to a confidential informant, with whom investigators suspect he was having a relationship, was charged Friday with numerous crimes including two felonies.

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    Related Topix: Longmont, CO

  6. Huge drug bust nets more arrestsRead the original story

    9 hrs ago | Campbell County Recorder

    Police continued making arrests Friday in largest roundup of drug traffickers in the city's history.

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    Related Topix: Drugs, Covington, KY

  7. Study examines temporal association between media coverage and opioid-related deathsRead the original story

    Yesterday | Medical News

    Increases in deaths from opioid drugs such as OxyContin may be linked to the volume of coverage such deaths receive in the news, according to a study from Children's Hospital Boston and the University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill.

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    Related Topix: Medication, North Carolina, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Health

  8. 'Big Brother' winner accused of trying to sell painkillers renews bail requestRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | CBC News

    The winner of the CBS reality television show "Big Brother 9," accused of trying to sell a powerful prescription painkiller, is again asking to be released on bail until his trial.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Drugs, Delray Beach, FL, Entertainment

  9. 'Big Brother' Winner Seeks Bail In Mass. Drug CaseRead the original story

    13 hrs ago | Kdka.com

    The winner of the CBS reality television show "Big Brother 9," accused of trying to sell a powerful prescription painkiller, is again asking to be released on bail until his trial.

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    Related Topix: Game Show, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Big Brother, Drugs, Medicine, Medication, Delray Beach, FL, Pittsburgh, PA

  10. Sherry Johnston, Levi's mother, is sentencedRead the original story

    13 hrs ago | Anchorage Daily News

    Sherry Johnston was sentenced today to three years in prison for dealing OxyContin.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Wasilla, AK, Hiland Mountain Correctional Center, State Prisons, Prison, Eagle-River, AK, Anchorage, AK

  11. Carpet cleaner extracts painkillers from customer's homeRead the original story

    14 hrs ago | Cleaning & Maintenance Mgmt.

    Geoffrey Roll, who, after cleaning the woman's carpets, returned several times claiming to be looking for a brush he had lost inside the home, kept asking the homeowner to use her bathroom - the place she stored her prescription Oxycontin pills, the story stated.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Medication

  12. a More help needed for addictsaRead the original story

    17 hrs ago | Parry Sound North Star

    Prescription medication addiction doesn't just happen to the "druggies" or the young, but even holds on to those who try to stop after taking it for legitimate physical pain.

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    Related Topix: Drugs, Canada, Parry Sound, ON, Ontario, Medicine, Medication, Suicide, Thunder Bay, ON

  13. Rear ended by a drunk driver then effed in the rear by the medical system.Read the original story

    19 hrs ago | Ask MetaFilter

    Bone graft gone wrong. Testicle swollen, major pain, difficulty walking, Doctors not helping.

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    Related Topix: Philadelphia, PA, Morphine (generic), MS Contin, Kadian, Medicine, Medication

  14. Grand jury puts Broward pill mills on noticeRead the original story

    17 hrs ago | WSVN-TV Miami Beach

    They say they're pain clinics. But the Broward State Attorney calls them something else: pill mills, a place where people addicted to pain killers and narcotics can get pills-- lots of them-- fraudulently.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Pain, Drugs, Broward County, FL

  15. Ontario cracking down on prescription pill abuseRead the original story

    Yesterday | The Globe and Mail

    ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY Published on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 12:00AM EST Last updated on Friday, Nov.

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    Related Topix: Drugs, Canada, Toronto, ON, Ontario, Medicine, Health, Pain, British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

  16. Nurse is sentenced for drug chargesRead the original story

    Yesterday | SeacoastOnline

    A former nurse at Haven Health Center of the Seacoast was sentenced to three years of probation, including six months of home confinement, for fraudulently obtaining drugs from the local nursing home.

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    Related Topix: Prison, Hampton, NH, Medicine, Medication, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Healthcare Law

  17. Grand Jury Wants To Crack Down On Pill MillsRead the original story

    Yesterday | CBS4

    Share + Nov 20, 2009 12:03 am US/Eastern Broward County has become known as the "pill mill capital" of the United States.

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    Related Topix: Drugs, Broward County, FL

  18. Orlando council candidate jailed, called 'drug dealer'Read the original story w/Photo

    Yesterday | WDBO-AM Orlando

    The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation served search warrants on the home and business of Ezell Harris and after recovering thousands of highly-addictive pain killers like Hydrocodone and Oxycodone, the heroin-withdrawal drug Methadone and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, they arrested him Thursday.

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    Related Topix: Drugs, Orlando, FL, Medicine, Medication, Methadone

  19. City of Tonawanda: Cleaner charged with theft of customer's painkillersRead the original story

    Yesterday | Tonawanda News

    City of Tonawanda police arrested a Lackawanna man for allegedly stealing a customer's prescription pain medication while cleaning her carpets.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Medication

  20. Ont. looking to impose new rules to restrict OxyContin, other painkillersRead the original story

    Yesterday | CBC News

    Ontario may have new rules before the end of the year to restrict how the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin is prescribed and dispensed, as well as other narcotics and controlled substances, government officials said.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Drugs, Canada, London, ON, Ontario, Science / Technology