Tag: OxyContin

In the vast landscape of pharmaceuticals, few substances have garnered as much controversy and infamy as OxyContin. This potent opioid painkiller, initially marketed as a panacea for chronic pain, has quickly become synonymous with one of the most devastating public health crises in modern American ...

Starting in 1996, Purdue Pharma introduced OxyContin to Appalachia for the first time. The drug was heavily marketed and promoted very frequently. It was supposed to be used as a tool for helping the miners deal with chronic pain that resulted from the strenuous labor that mining demands. A big fact...

suring my sophomore year of college, when I was 19, my mother gave me my very first OxyContin, and I fell in love with it. There were extenuating circumstances (there always are): I was deeply depressed and threatening suicide, she was terrified for me and on Oxy herself, and it was 2000, when we di...