Oxycontin Class Action Resources

OxyNEO another prescription for disaster?
More than two months after one of the most abused drugs in modern medicine - OxyCon-tin - was taken off the market, there are signs that Canadian drug users are trying to adapt and to fill the void that's been left.

Drug companies back Mary Bono Mack
Rep. Mary Bono Mack, a leading congressional voice against prescription pain medicine abuse, is among many lawmakers who are outspoken on the issue, but accept campaign dollars from makers of some of the most-abused legal pain drugs.

Leominster High School teacher arrested on drug charges
LEOMINSTER -- A Leominster High School English teacher was arrested on drug charges at her home in Gardner Thursday afternoon, Gardner Police Sgt.

Prescription rate for high-strength painkillers at troubling all-time high
It was the type of conversation Dr. Claire Trescott dreads: telling physicians they are not cutting it. But Group Health, which Trescott helps manage, has placed controls on how painkillers are prescribed, like making sure doctors do not prescribe too much. Doctors on staff have been told to abide by the guidelines or face the consequences.

Victims of the prosecution
A coalition of innocence projects, legal experts and wrongly convicted defendants announced on Thursday that a study of prosecutorial misconduct in Arizona from 2004 through 2008 found that prosecutors committed error in 20 cases. The coalition — which includes the Innocence Project of New York , along with Veritas Initiative , a policy and research arm of the Northern California Innocence ...