The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 16, 2018, 10:52:46 am
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Study links rising heroin deaths to 2010 OxyContin reformulation
April 9, 2018
by Patrick Gibbons, University of Notre Dame
Efforts by Purdue Pharma in 2010 to make its blockbuster prescription opioid painkiller OxyContin less prone to abuse did nothing to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths across the nation. In fact, according to researchers at the University of Notre Dame, the reformulation of OxyContin instead fueled a heroin epidemic that continues to claim lives at an increasing rate.
https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2018-04-links-heroin-deaths-oxycontin-reformulation.html