Pubdate: Sun, 21 Apr 2002
Source: New York Times (NY)
Section: Week in Review
Copyright: 2002 The New York Times Company
Contact:  http://www.nytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298
Author: Barry Meier
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?186 (Oxycontin)

WARNINGS ON OXYCONTIN

Two federal agencies appear to be of different minds about the powerful 
painkiller OxyContin. The Drug Enforcement Agency said 464 people have died 
over the past two years of drug overdoses in which OxyContin may have 
played a role. But the Food and Drug Administration said it did not see a 
risk thus far to those properly using the narcotic.
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