OxyContin marketing blamed for addiction epidemic

Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 22:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Powerful but misleading marketing that for years pushed the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin has left tens of thousands of Canadians with the twin burdens of chronic pain and severe withdrawal, critics say.

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