News tagged with 'Oxycodone Hydrochloride'

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked pharmaceutical maker Purdue Pharma LP to pull all OxyContin advertisements printed in a widely read journal because they fail to properly warn readers of the medication's adverse side effects. The ads, which the FDA says "grossly misrepresent" the safety of OxyContin,

Purdue Pharma announced this week that an abuse-resistant form of its controversial pain reliever OxyContin would not be available next year as planned. The announcement was a major disappointment for the drug manufacturer, which has been taking criticism from health officials and activists who want the drug banned.

A new report published by the Florida Medical Examiner's office says that oxycodone, the main ingredient in the painkiller OxyContin, caused or contributed to more deaths last year in Florida than heroin. According to the examiner's office, it is the first time that the state has seen more deaths linked to a prescript

A popular Northeastern supermarket chain will stop carrying the controversial pain medication OxyContin in its pharmacies due to an increasing number of robberies involving the drug. A spokesperson for Stop & Shop, which has over 300 stores in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, said in

According to a new report released by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the painkiller OxyContin may have contributed to 464 drug overdose deaths in the last two years. The new data comes months after the DEA launched an investigation into the drug's involvement in hundreds of overdose deaths across the country.

Purdue Pharma is tired of the negative press it has received since OxyContin began to make headlines. The pharmaceutical company, which makes the painkiller, is launching a six-month advertising campaign designed to inform consumers about the company's efforts to curb abuse of the drug. In newspaper advertisements ac

Dr. James Graves, the Milton, Florida physician accused of excessively prescribing the painkiller OxyContin, was convicted Tuesday of four counts of manslaughter, five counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and one count of racketeering. Graves becomes the first doctor to be convicted of manslaughter in

Closing arguments concluded yesterday in the case of James Graves, a Florida doctor whose excessive OxyContin prescriptions may have killed four patients. Graves is charged with racketeering, unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and four counts of manslaughter. If convicted, the physician could face up to thir

A Virginia doctor who allegedly prescribed painkillers to patients he knew to be drug addicts was arrested last Friday outside of Roanoke. Authorities charged Dr. Cecil B. Knox III, 52, with illegal dispersion of prescription painkillers. Investigators say Knox contributed to overdose deaths and bodily injuries of te

A Florida doctor whose excessive Oxycontin prescriptions may have killed four patients went on trial yesterday. Dr. James Graves prescribed the painkiller more frequently than any other doctor in the state. Oxycontin is a powerful medication which has been linked to hundreds of overdose deaths. The drug produces a h

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reported this week that pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma uses "aggressive marketing practices" when selling OxyContin and may be partly responsible for the hundreds of deaths associated with the pain killing drug. OxyContin is a prescription painkiller that produces a euphori

Oxycontin, a narcotic analgesic used to relieve pain, made headlines once again this week when the State of Florida announced it will commence an investigation into the marketing practices of Purdue Pharma, the drug's manufacturer. The announcement is another crushing blow to the drug maker, which has been in the news

The number of OxyContin overdose deaths in the State of Florida continues to rise. Despite heightened awareness of the pain killer's potency, thousands have become addicted to, and died from, OxyContin. The number of people who died from hydrocodone and oxycodone (the generic name for OxyContin) in Florida increased b

Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, chose not to use a chemical additive, known as an antagonist, employed by other pharmaceutical companies to prevent misuse of painkilling drugs. Purdue claims it did not anticipate that drug users would crush and inject or snort OxyContin, so the company saw no need to inc

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal recently sent a scathing letter to Purdue Pharma, the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin. The letter demands that the company take more action to reduce the number of overdose deaths attributed to the potent drug, including changing Purdue's marketing and dis