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Ultimately, it may be the patients who get hurt most, because a growing number of doctors, frightened of government scrutiny, are avoiding the use of powerful narcotics such as OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet and Dilaudid. "It is impossible to be sure that a patient is not diverting any of his medication," says Dr. Thomas Stinson, a Medford, Mass., anesthesiologist who is closing his 20-year practice to new pain patients. "I fear I might be targeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is The DEA Hounding This Doctor? | 7/18/2005 | See Source »

take the oral pain pill Dilaudid until they reach that point and then switch to the spinal injection. Moreover, their labors were 90 minutes shorter. That sounds encouraging. If my wife is in less pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Baby Bulletins | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

Many conditions, like the strained muscles I've experienced, will heal on their own, but it's important to know what activities should be curtailed to avoid reaggravating them. Don't be overly concerned if your doctor prescribes morphine-derived opioids, such as Dilaudid or Percocet. They're in the most effective class of pain relievers around. Some doctors have been reluctant to recommend them for fear of contributing to addictions, and, as a survey of minority neighborhoods in New York City showed last week, inner-city pharmacies are less likely to carry them than are pharmacies in white areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silent Suffering | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...really achieved any kind of life. My nascent marriage was showing signs of miscarrying. A contracted novel I had completed was about to be rejected. During the writing of that doomed book, I had taken to ingesting prolific amounts of narcotics. I didn't take these drugs--Vicodin, Percocet, Dilaudid, morphine sulfate, Talwin, Darvon, codeine, the occasional balloon of street heroin--to help me write; I took them to make me feel better about how badly I was writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Requiem | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...sweet-natured, born-again Christian and imagine the gruesome crime to which she confessed in Houston, Texas, on June 13, 1983. Back then she was a drug-addicted prostitute who, during a weekend orgy with her boyfriend, had consumed an astonishing quantity of heroin, Valium, speed, percodan, mandrax, marijuana, dilaudid, methadone, tequila and rum. The two then took a pickax and hacked to death Jerry Lynn Dean, 27, her ex-lover, and Deborah Thornton, 32, his companion of the moment, while they slept. Tucker, who left the pickax embedded in Thornton's chest, boasted at her trial that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why So Many Want to Save Her | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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