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"Whitaker: "There is a story of a couple in West Virginia who were no longer prescribed OxyContin213 by their doctor and so they start to take heroin, which costs much less than the black market pharmaceutical would on the street. oxycontin is actually a suitable substitute for heroin." " With your work on so many patients, are there times when natural and complementary supplements and therapies don't work as well as conventional drugs? Dr. Whitaker: "One example is Dilantin.214 This drug is an excellent therapy for anxiety, depression, and a racing mind." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The reps were to say not only that oxycontin was safe but that there was "no maximum daily dose or ceiling" on the amount patients could ingest if they still suffered pain. The sales reps were also to say that few patients built up a tolerance for the drug or found themselves needing more and more pills. For thousands of Americans this proved untrue." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "After news reports detailed the widespread abuse of oxycontin, Purdue Pharma changed some of its marketing practices. For example, the company said it had stopped treating doctors to all-expense-paid trips to resorts in the fall of 2000. But at least some doctors and scientists continued to benefit from the largesse of Purdue's marketing department. In April 2004 Purdue handed Dr. Gerald Gebhart, the head of the department of pharmacology at the University of Iowa, a check for fifty thousand dollars during an event at the Marriott Hotel overlooking a long strip of white sand in Grand Cayman." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Florida law enforcement authorities had begun investigating Limbaugh after his maid told the National Enquirer that she met him in parking lots where he handed her cigar boxes filled with cash and she gave him cigar boxes filled with pills, including oxycontin. Prosecutors later charged Limbaugh with illegally obtaining prescription painkillers from more than one doctor to feed his habit. He pleaded not guilty to the charges but agreed to settle with prosecutors by submitting to random drug tests, continuing treatment for his addiction, and not owning a gun." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "A doctor prescribed oxycontin, telling her it was "mobility in a bottle." The pills did not relieve her pain, however, and the doctor increased the dose. It was then that she developed an intense craving for the pills. She would wake in the morning, she said, and find she couldn't wait to swallow the drug. She took another tablet, only to find that she craved the drug again within a few hours. Her life became a blur. She found herself doing crazy things, she said, like trimming the blades of grass in her yard with scissors to make sure they all were the same length." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In certain cases of angina, or chest pain, I don't think 213 OxyContin: a prescription narcotic drug used to treat moderate to severe pain. It contains a controlled time-release formula to extend the pain relief over an extended amount of time. 214 Dilantin: a prescription drug commonly used for seizures. 215 GABA: a supplement that induces relaxation, analgesia and sleep. It is a substance that is normally manufactured in the brain." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Part of the agreement, according to the Boston Globe, includes MGH pain specialists conducting continuing education seminars on pain control "using Purdue-designed curriculum written, in part, to encourage wary doctors and pharmacists to prescribe pain-killers such as oxycontin." A medical ethicist from Boston University, George Annas, commented: "You don't let outside people write your curriculum. You don't put your name on their curriculum. There's the potential for that being a curriculum run by the drug companies." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Purdue Pharma, the maker of the expensive painkiller oxycontin, went one step further. The company gave $3 million to the prestigious Massachusetts General Hospital in return for, among other things, the hospital's renaming its current pain center the MGH Purdue Pharma Pain Center. According to a news release from Massachusetts General, the money will be used to support educational activities, including continuing medical education courses." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Does this mean that routine "preemptive" treatment with oxycontin is more effective than routine "preemptive" treatment with other shorter-acting (and much less expensive) pain medication? This study leaves that question unanswered. STUDYING THE WRONG PATIENTS The next step in designing a clinical trial is to determine the characteristics of the people to be included in the study. Ideally, people included in a trial reflect the population of patients to whom the results will be applied—those most likely to use the drug or device being tested." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"One of the best known is oxycontin (timed-release oxycodone), which can be very safe and effective when used orally as directed. Sadly, it can be illegally diverted and used illicitly. Therefore, it has also become dangerous for physicians to prescribe oxycontin, even appropriately, because the federal government will sometimes put a physician in jail for doing so. oxycontin also has been associated with vitamin B2 (riboflavin) deficiency, which will sometimes cause the corners of the mouth to crack. This is called angular stomatitis, cheilitis, or perleche." - Jacob Teitelbaum, Pain Free 1-2-3: A Proven Program for Eliminating Chronic Pain Now (Get the book.)

"Harming Youth, Psychiatry Destroys Young Minds," Citizens Commission on Human Rights, 2004 164 Vicodin is indicated for the relief of moderate to moderately severe pain. 165 oxycontin is in a class of drugs called narcotic analgesics. It is a pain reliever. 166 http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/children/articles/2003/08/20/ most_ drugsnevertestedforsafetyinchildren/ 167 http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/joumals/mdd/v07/i03/pdf/304rules.pdf We didn't talk about the under-dosing, overdosing and ineffectiveness of many drugs given to our children." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Your drug company just received an official warning letter from the FDA for the "false and misleading" marketing of Celebrex, Vioxx, Pravachol, or oxycontin? No problem. The FDA's corrective action is unlikely to displace the false information already firmly planted in the public's mind. And the list goes on. Controlling medical costs in this near free-for-all commercial grab is not just impossible, it is a contradiction in terms. Does it make sense to talk about reducing national expenditures for cars or clothes or beer?" - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Most doctors will prescribe sedating painkillers, antidepressants, or drugs such as oxycontin to their patients with chronic pain. While these painkilling drugs are effective, they are also addictive. To date, there are four million oxycontin addicts who use this drug to mask their pain. What's more, none of these treatments resolves the problem of a GABA deficiency. I treat chronic pain patients with a more natural approach. I usually prescribe a combination of nutrients, including 5-hydroxytryptophan; D, L-phenylalanine; methionine; and fish oils; depending on their level of GABA deficiency." - Eric R. Braverman, The Edge Effect: Achieve Total Health and Longevity with the Balanced Brain Advantage (Get the book.)

"For example, abuse of drugs such as methamphetamine, oxycontin and cocaine is fairly common among teens, he says. Kids begin acting strangely, hearing voices, becoming paranoid. The symptoms can mimic psychosis or behavioral disorders, and doctors can end up giving these children unneeded antipsychotic drugs", he says (http://usatodav.com/news/health/2006-05-01-atypical-druqs x.htm)." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Your experience with oxycontin and its addictive nature should have taught you something about the priorities of pharmaceuticals. Predatory lawyers and frivolous lawsuits—John Stossel's new book, Give Me a Break (2004), would have you believe that these are the cause of soaring medical costs. John, you claim that these ambulance chasers and their clients use "junk" science to blame doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceuticals for unmerited legal redress. Get real, John. Who do you think invented "junk" science? The pharmaceutical corporations!" - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Most of the press about opioid abuse centered not on the middle class to well-off, but on the poor and the rural — losers and hicks scoring the more powerful oxycontin, a.k.a. "hillbilly heroin" — in places like Kentucky and West Virginia. Yet the real action (and perhaps the more relevant as a portal to the future) was in the suburbs, because it was there that opioid abuse was soaring — and doing so, at least ostensibly, because people knew how to get it. They didn't have to knock off a drugstore,-they just used their telephone and a Blue Cross card." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Haddox's statement does nothing to explain away the many thousands of people who have become addicted to this hard drug. If oxycontin were safe and nonaddictive, why are thousands of people ruining their lives, committing suicide and faces years of super expensive rehabilitation if the drug is as safe and innocent as its makers claim? Certainly, many people are abusing oxycontin and using it improperly. But many others are not. In either case, we see an example of a drug issued by a major, trusted drug company, which was also approved by the FDA." - American Medical Publishing, Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives (Get the book.) "Conclusions The sad story of oxycontin is just another among a long string of addictive drugs that have burst on the American scene, and have left lasting problems which take years to deal with, and often are never curbed entirely. For example, oxycontin's older cousin, oxycodone, sold as Percodan and Percoset, has been addicting people for decades on end. There has never been a successful way to stop getting this drug into the hands of those who are addicted and abusing it. The same could be said for dozens of other drugs, from Xanax and Tylenol with codeine, to Darvon and Ultram." - American Medical Publishing, Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives (Get the book.)

"The pain killer oxycontin is still on the market, yet there are confirmed 120 deaths. • The most popular drugs in the world, cholesterol-lowering drugs, can actually trigger a heart attack. This is confirmed by the drug manufacturer's own research! But this information is kept from doctors, the media, and patients. The drug companies knew about these dangers thirteen years ago when it first introduced the cholesterol-lowering drugs." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"I was given oxycontin for pain as well as Percocet. I don't like feeling the drug stupor so I opted to try two glasses of water & a pinch of salt as your book suggested. Amazingly, the water is much more effective for this kind of core pain than the drugs! In only 12 days, there is a change coming on in the tumors. They appear to be shrinking slightly, in any case, softening and changing to smoother shapes. The pain is dramatically disappearing. This may be too early to say, but the necrotizing tissue on the tonsil seems to be clearing up." - Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, Obesity Cancer & Depression: Their Common Cause & Natural Cure (Get the book.)

"To date, there are four million oxycontin addicts who use this drug to mask their pain. What's more, none of these treatments resolves the problem of a GABA deficiency. I treat chronic pain patients with a more natural approach. I usually prescribe a combination of nutrients, including 5-hydroxytryptophan; D, L-phenylalanine; methionine; and fish oils; depending on their level of GABA deficiency. This combination is particularly effective for those who suffer from arthritis and migraines." - Eric R. Braverman, The Edge Effect: Achieve Total Health and Longevity with the Balanced Brain Advantage (Get the book.)

"In one study of twenty-two patients receiving oxycontin, twenty of them were found to have this problem. High-dose vitamin B2 (present in the Energy Revitalization System) eliminated the problem in almost all patients within a few days. An alternative is the use of timed-release morphine. This can be given every twelve hours, although in some patients it needs to be given three times a day. Another alternative is non—timed-release oxycodone (Percocet and Roxicet), which is stronger and less sedating than morphine." - Jacob Teitelbaum, Pain Free 1-2-3: A Proven Program for Eliminating Chronic Pain Now (Get the book.)

"Perhaps most of the time they abused oxycontin out of simple curiosity. But oxycontin is so powerful, many people are instantly addicted after their first "hit." no matter how they decide to take it. Some people take it just the normal, prescribed way, yet they too develop a sudden addiction. Sadly, some of the people who get addicted are innocently trying to deal with chronic pain — from migraine headaches and back pain, to pain caused by diseases, like cancer or arthritis." - American Medical Publishing, Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives (Get the book.)

"No small part of the oxycontin problem is people who crush the tablets, defeating the controlled-release mechanism. Others start taking it for pain but develop an addiction. Still others use it appropriately and wind up physically dependent but not addicted. Each of us experiences a decline in different hormones at different rates and at different times in our lives, so we must monitor our hormone levels and supplement them—under a doctor's direction—as necessary. The GABA hormones are vital for everyone's health, whether you have a GABA deficiency or not." - Eric R. Braverman, The Edge Effect: Achieve Total Health and Longevity with the Balanced Brain Advantage (Get the book.)

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