OxyContin patent expiry poses tough choice for Ottawa

Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 09:01 in Mathematics & Economics

The federal health minister has two weeks to decide whether to allow drug companies to make a cheaper generic version of OxyContin, the much-prescribed painkiller that was pulled from the market after reports of abuse and rising addictions across Canada.

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