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OxyContin - relieve pain.
Side Effects:
May cause constipation, lightheadedness, stomach upset, dizziness,
drowsiness, nausea and flushing.
If these effects persist or worsen, contact your doctor.
Notify your doctor if you develop irregular heartbeat, anxiety
or tremors.
In the unlikely event you have an allergic reaction to this drug,
seek medical attention immediately.
Symptoms of an allergic reaction include rash, itching, swelling,
dizziness or trouble breathing. 
Precautions:
Before using this drug, tell your doctor your medical history,
especially of severe diarrhea, stomach or intestinal disorders,
breathing problems, kidney or liver disease, history of alcohol
use, drug dependence and of any allergies.
Alcoholic beverages may increase the effects of this drug causing
dizziness or lightheadedness. Limit alcohol intake.
Use caution engaging in activities requiring alertness such as
driving.
The elderly may be more sensitive to the effects of this drug.
The medication should be used only when clearly needed during pregnancy.
Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor.
Oxycodone is excreted into breast milk.
Though, to date, problems have not been reported in nursing infants,
consult your doctor before breast-feeding. .
Generic Name: Oxycodone HCl
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Oxycodone can be abused in a manner similar to other
opioid agonists, legal or illicit.
This should be considered when prescribing or dispensing OxyContin
in situations where the physician or pharmacist is concerned about
an increased risk of misuse, abuse, or diversion.
This includes patients with significant respiratory depression (in
unmonitored settings or the absence of resuscitative equipment),
and patients with acute or severe bronchial asthma or hypercarbia.
Oxycodone can be abused in a manner similar to other opioid agonists,
legal or illicit.
In pharmacokinetic studies, opioid-naive females demonstrate up
to 25% higher average plasma concentrations and greater frequency
of typical opioid adverse events than males, even after adjustment
for body weight. oxycodone, depression.
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Drug Administration (FDA) approved Purdue Pharma's controlled-release
pain reliever OxyContin in 1995.
To improve efforts to prevent or identify abuse and diversion of
controlled substances such as OxyContin, FDA's risk management plan
guidance should encourage pharmaceutical manufacturers with new
drug applications to submit plans that contain a strategy for identifying
potential problems with abuse and diversion.
Purdue conducted an extensive campaign to market and promote OxyContin
using an expanded sales force and multiple promotional approaches
to encourage physicians, including primary care specialists, to
prescribe OxyContin as an initial opioid treatment for noncancer
pain.
DEA has expressed concern that Purdue's aggressive marketing of
OxyContin focused on promoting the drug to treat a wide range of
conditions to physicians who may not have been adequately trained
in pain management. OxyContin, health.
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HOW DO WE HELP INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SECTION NINE -- HOW
DO WE HELP INDIVIDUALS WHO ABUSE OXYCONTIN?
Diversion of OxyContin for criminal purposes is widespread and the
increased access to OxyContin supports drug seeking behavior such
as double doctoring.
Developing and implementing comprehensive drug education sessions
for youth; and Researching approaches, options, and best practices
for detoxification and treatment.
The Task Force explored a number of questions including: What is
OxyContin?
Based on this data there is concern that increased prescribing of
OxyContin supports drug seeking behavior, such as double doctoring,
and diversion of this drug to the street.
Recognition of chronic pain as a public health issue with broad
implications for health and social sectors is a recent phenomenon.
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It is used medically as a prescription painkiller to
control moderate to severe pain, chronic pain, and pain related
to cancer and other debilitating and terminal conditions.
OxyContin contains oxycodone, the medication's active ingredient,
in a controlled-release tablet form (10 mg, 20 mg, 40 mg, and 80
mg) that provides 12-hour pain relief.
When used illicitly, OxyContin can be taken in pill form, or crushed
and then ingested, snorted, or diluted in water and injected (thereby
introducing a range of health concerns related to injection drug
use).
Most individuals who abuse OxyContin do so to gain euphoric effects,
relieve pain, and to avoid withdrawal symptoms. OxyContin, opioids.
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OxyContin is legitimately prescribed for relief of moderate
to severe pain resulting from injuries, bursitis, neuralgia, arthritis,
and cancer.
Individuals abuse OxyContin for the euphoric effect it produces---an
effect similar to that associated with heroin use.
The tablets are imprinted with the letters OC on one side and the
number of milligrams on the opposite side.
Four percent of high school seniors in the United States abused
the drug at least once in the past year, according to the University
of Michigan's Monitoring the Future Survey.
Individuals who abuse OxyContin risk developing tolerance for the
drug, meaning they must take increasingly higher doses to achieve
the same effects.
Abuse of these drugs may lead to severe psychological or physical
dependence. OxyContin, severe.
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Most illegal drug use involves criminal activity apart
from the illegal possession and sale of the drug.
Dangers of Abuse You may have heard news reports about a prescription
drug called OxyContin.
Although OxyContin is a highly effective drug for treating patients
with chronic or severe pain, it is being illegally obtained and
sold on the streets of Pennsylvania.
Drug addicts will steal or forge prescriptions and even rob pharmacies
to get this drug.
Educating ourselves against the dangers of illegal drug use is the
first step toward preventing abuse and drug-related crime.
It comes in tablet form and has a timerelease effect that gives
relief over a 12-hour time period. OxyContin, Obtaining.
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