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HEALTH CANADA REPORT LOOKS AT PAINKILLER PRESCRIPTIONS IN ATLANTIC CANADA
August 29, 2005
Although it was Newfoundland and Nova Scotia that first raised alarms about the abuse of so-called "hillbilly heroin" in Atlantic Canada, it is New Brunswick that accounts for most of the prescriptions for the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone, according to a new Health Canada report. During the first six months of 2005, more than 92,500 prescriptions were filled for oxycodone-based painkillers, such as OxyContin, at 651 retail pharmacies throughout the four Atlantic provinces.
Canada.com (http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=58e0e961-befa-478f-8bd5-83c94947ea45)
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