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OxyContin Addiction in Ontario Canada, as in Many Other Places, is Increasing

"If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time" - Marian Wright Edelman

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Nearly five hundred deaths in five years have been attributed to OxyContin addiction in Ontario, reported the Toronto Star.

In 2009 OxyContin addiction in Ontario increased because prescribing doctors had no online access to what other OxyContin prescriptions had been made out for a person and prescriptions were easily forged.

Wrong Answer Dr. Jenkins!

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - I was invited - as credentialed media - to participate in a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) media briefing on November 19, 2010 to discuss a "drug safety issue".

A controversial painkiller Darvocet or Darvon as well as other brand/generic drugs containing propoxyphene was being pulled by the FDA due to dangerous cardiac side effects. New proof of heart side effects in studies of healthy people taking normal doses of the drug prompted the FDA to act.

Connecticut`s Grave Mistake: Honoring Purdue Pharma for Safety

Purdue Pharma: convicted criminals responsible not only for the deaths of our youth, but the destruction of families throughout the U.S. and Canada.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Parents from all over the country and Canada called Governor Rell's offic to express their outrage at Purdue Pharma being honored with an award for "keeping youth safe" in Connecticut.

I thought it appropriate to call to hear for myself how bereaved parents were being treated by the governor's staff.

Connecticut Rewards Purdue Pharma for Keeping `Youth Safe`

Connecticut awards criminally convicted Purdue Pharma; True Definition of the Word "Irony" -- Purdue Pharma honored for drug prevention efforts -- in keeping "youth safe"

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - As hard a pill as it is to swallow, the criminals at Purdue Pharma were recently honored for their strong commitment to keeping Connecticut’s youth "safe, successful and drug-free."

Purdue received the award at the 20th Annual Governor’s Luncheon in Farmington, CT.

Drug Issues Plague Attorney General Jack Conway of Kentucky`s Bid for U.S. Senate

“Where there’s smoke there’s fire, but I say, “Where there’s love there’s liars” - Oh, The Story! lyrics

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - I have written two articles about Kentucky AG Jack Conway accepting a $50,000 check from the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators.

I had a problem with Conway taking money from a group funded by Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, a company the state of Kentucky was suing for the devastation caused by OxyContin in deaths and addictions.

Schneider Sentencing: Dr. Stephen Schneider 30 Years - Linda Schneider 33 Years

Judge spares Schneiders a life sentence in running a "pill mill" resulting in the deaths of 68 patients.

(WICHITA, Kansas) - Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda Schneider, who were convicted in Federal Court of dozens of deaths of patients attributed to running a "pill mill" had asked a federal judge to sentence them to the minimum of 20 years in prison, rather than the life sentence prosecutors were seeking.

The Schneiders also were found guilty on five counts of unlawfully writing prescriptions and 11 health care fraud counts.

Purdue Pharma and California and Oklahoma Epidemic of OxyContin

“I kept seeing over and over and over people in their 20's addicted to OxyContin” - Dr. Charles Shaw, addiction specialist physician in Oklahoma City,

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - California recently reported they have an OxyContin epidemic among young people.

AG Roy Cooper - North Carolina`s Wyatt Earp

First in a series highlighting states fighting the epidemic of prescription drug addiction, abuse, death and the "over-treatment of pain" in America.
"My name's Wyatt Earp -- It all ends now!"

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - AG Cooper supports expanding access to state computer records identifying people with prescriptions for certain drugs. Recently in Charlotte, N.C., Cooper called prescription-drug abuse the biggest drug threat today.

He made his remarks at a meeting with law enforcement leaders from North Carolina and 25 other states to discuss better ways to fight illegal drugs.

Pain Classified as a Disease?
Please, Give Us a Break

A declaration calls on governments and health-care institutions to establish laws, policies and systems that will help promote access to pain management.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - If "pain" is recognized as a "disease" and not a "symptom" -- there won't be enough hours in the day for the DEA, the DOJ, or the FDA to restrain the pharmaceutical industry drug cartels

Last week the first International Pain Summit was held in Montreal at the 13th World Congress on Pain. A "leading pain authority" by the name of Michael Cousins, an Australian anesthesiologist, reported that about 80 per cent of people with chronic pain do not get adequate relief and are suffering needlessly throughout the world.

Schneider Trial Aftermath

My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way" - (Lyrics to Abba song)

(WICHITA, Kansas) - I had planned on writing an article on the sentencing of Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife in the fall, but some interesting events occurred recently that caused me to change my mind.

For starters, federal prosecutors told a federal judge last week that Stephen and Linda Schneider should be made to forfeit more than $4.2 million in assets to help pay for their crimes. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Annette Gurney and Tanya Treadway filed a motion asking U.S. District Judge Monti Belot to award the government money the Schneiders illegally obtained.