In 2004, she was charged with obtaining the painkiller OxyContin fraudulently at a pharmacy.
It doesn't help that some pain meds, like Oxycontin, have become widely abused.
Her brother, Jose Figueroa, 35, said his sister overdosed on oxycontin after undergoing brain surgery for a tumor and using painkillers.
In 2004, McCready was placed on three years' probation after she pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin at a pharmacy.
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On the one side are doctors such as Vad who do everything they can to avoid opioid painkillers such as Percocet and OxyContin.
He provided a handwritten list of 30 causes his firm didn't take up, such as recoveries for the pain reliever Oxycontin and Sept. 11.
But as of now, abuse resistant mechanisms only apply to OxyContin-like slow release painkillers, and do not apply to short-acting analgesics, which are the most widely abused painkillers.
The goal was to see how this population would react to the introduction of abuse-resistant OxyContin after establishing a baseline of abuse with the same group for the original version.
Of course, given the failure to anticipate that the first version of OxyContin would be abused in the way it was, there is a considerable caution about pronouncing version two a success.
As a result of Washington State switching from safer pain medication, such as OxyContin, to the cheaper but much riskier methadone, at least 2, 173 people died between 2003 and 2011 from accidental overdoses.
Even if we don't know Oxytocin from OxyContin or our vagus from Las Vegas, we seem to know intuitively how to prepare our spirits for takeoff -- even when the forecast calls for grounding all flights.
From 2007 to 2010, prescriptions for oxycodone (the main ingredient in OxyContin) increased 82 percent in Nassau County, and the painkiller has contributed to more deaths than any other prescription opioid there since 2006, the report says.
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It also confirms an earlier, smaller study, published as a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine last July, which tracked 2, 566 patients with opioid dependence before and after the introduction of the new OxyContin.
"I think the most likely explanation for why mortality is getting worse is those factors are just stronger in those counties, " Dr. Murray said, adding that abuse of Oxycontin and other drugs also may add to the problem.
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The original OxyContin was, initially, seen as a breakthrough in pain relief because it would slowly release its active ingredient, oxycodone, over 12 hours, allowing people with chronic pain to be able to take fewer pills, sleep through the night, and generally be less tortured by their condition.
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