![]() ![]() In its packaging insert the company claimed –: “Delayed absorption as provided by Ox圜ontin tablets is believed to reduce abuse liability to the drug.” ![]() Due to the pill’s special coating which the company claimed had slow release properties there was, so they said, no likelihood that patients would experience ‘the immediate rush of instant release drug’ and therefore the product carried little risk of addiction. But Purdue pushed the FDA (responsible for authorising new drugs in the US) to licence its use as a general painkiller. This drug – basically heroine in pill form – had originally been developed to treat chronic cancer pain. Russell Portenoy said: “the reality is that data about the effectiveness of opioids does not exist.”īy the time this statement is made opioids have killed more Americans than did the 2 nd world war and the most widely known, most abused and ultimately most notorious of these, a drug called Ox圜ontin, will have made billions for Purdue Pharma and its dynastic owners, the Sackler family. In 2012, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal a Dr. ![]()
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