Opioid Oxycodone News Today

At bp, we see possibilities everywhere. to help the world keep advancing. ♪ >> shannon: slow to respond and didnt use available resources. tonight, that is how a government watchdog is describing the drug enforcement administrations handling of the dramatic increase in opioid abuse in america. since 2000. in one instance from the report felt at the agency for authorizing a 400% increase in the production of the opioid oxycodone between 2002 and 2013. this is the two-year anniversary of the dea...

Hippies did into heroin. it was a specific problem in vietnam, but that was very confined and it was a very localized thing. it was in the 90s that a number of corporations began lobbying and um, spending a lot of money on p.r. for a more liberal attitude toward pain relief, treating the relief of pain as a kind of human right. talking about pain like the fifth vital sign, what they called it. in 1996, purdue pharmaceuticals brought out oxycodone. it was a special way of delivering the opioid ox...