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elehhhhna

(32,076 posts) Mon Jul 2, 2012, 09:30 PM Jul 2012

Report: Purdue Pharma Testing Effects of OxyContin on Kids in Effort to Extend Patent by Six Months

Report: Purdue Pharma Testing Effects of OxyContin on Kids in Effort to Extend Patent by Six Months

Neetzan Zimmerman

The pharmaceutical company behind OxyContin is paying dozens of clinical sites to document the effects of the highly addictive painkiller on children as part of an effort to secure a Food and Drug Administration approval to label the drug for use by kids ages six and up, according to a report published by The Daily.

http://gawker.com/5923006/report-purdue-pharma-testing-effects-of-oxycontin-on-kids-in-effort-to-extend-patent-by-six-months

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Report: Purdue Pharma Testing Effects of OxyContin on Kids in Effort to Extend Patent by Six Months (Original Post) elehhhhna Jul 2012 OP

What the HELL??? NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #1

Nobody should be surprised by this. russspeakeasy Jul 2012 #2

Shouldn't this be considered a crime? ananda Jul 2012 #3

recent studies show that adolecents are more prone to elehhhhna Jul 2012 #4

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

1. What the HELL???

Reply to elehhhhna (Original post)

Mon Jul 2, 2012, 09:33 PM

Jul 2012

Fuck!

russspeakeasy

(6,539 posts)

2. Nobody should be surprised by this.

Reply to elehhhhna (Original post)

Mon Jul 2, 2012, 09:44 PM

Jul 2012

If there is a $ to be made, somebody will do it.

ananda

(28,878 posts)

3. Shouldn't this be considered a crime?

Reply to elehhhhna (Original post)

Mon Jul 2, 2012, 09:48 PM

Jul 2012

And stopped and prosecuted?

elehhhhna

(32,076 posts)

4. recent studies show that adolecents are more prone to

Reply to ananda (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 3, 2012, 04:53 PM

Jul 2012

addiction than adults are...

these drugs serve a purpose in end-of-life pain control, but we all know how this shit will work out. Shin splints? Have some oxy.

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