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OxyNEO: pain relief or advertising addiction?

Shelagh McRae www.healthydebate.ca blogger

The patent on OxyContin has run out, the expected profit gone. Is it a coincidence that Purdue has stopped making it and replaced it with the new and improved OxyNEO? If Purdue can get Canadian doctors to prescribe it, their profits will continue. In a recent edition of the Medical Post, an industry-funded newspaper which goes