'Tamper-proof' OxyContin may have helped spread Hepatitis C

Monday, February 4, 2019 - 19:00 in Health & Medicine

An effort to make the opioid painkiller OxyContin harder to abuse drove addicted patients to heroin and caused a dramatic increase in hepatitis C, a new study suggests.

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