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Mexican Drug Cartels Now Trafficking Prescription Painkillers

By oxyn1147 | Published: October 22, 2012

Mexican drug cartels have depended on sales of illicit drugs like cocaine, marijuana and heroin for their profits. According to federal authorities, an increasing number of Mexican drug traffickers are now dealing in prescription drugs. These traffickers are forming “Pharma-Cartels” and focusing on selling highly addictive prescription painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin to customers in [...]

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Prescription Pads – Better than The Drugs for Most Abusers

By oxyn1147 | Published: June 18, 2012

Just how out of control has prescription drug fraud become? There has always been concern for prescription drug fraud, but as a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle points out, prescription drug fraud is reaching new heights. It seems that the pads used by physicians to write prescriptions are now being used to facilitate [...]

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ER Doctors Pressured to Provide Opiates for Toothaches

By oxyn1147 | Published: May 11, 2012

The New York Times recently reported on an emergency room doctor in South Carolina who is wary of patients who complain of toothaches. Dr. Bruce Lobitz fears that the majority of these patients are using tooth pain as an excuse to get prescriptions for opiate painkillers like OxyContin, OxyNEO, or Vicodin. His fears are well [...]

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