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Johnston, Sherry •not guilty plea to oxycontin-related drug charges is entered...
Johnston, Sherry •arrest of turns out to have been for oxycontin - or "coffee," as it was referred to in incriminating text messages of - despite widespread assumption that it was for meth...
Known as oxytocin (not to be confused with the painkiller OxyContin), the naturally occurring hormone is best known for controlling contractions during labor, but it also plays a key role in other fundamental human urges - including the desire to connect with others. "Somehow, the peptide increases trust, or alters the way individuals see each other," says Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health...
...1980s. One law enforcement official in Philadelphia says a contemporary analogy is the growing abuse of prescription painkillers, which now ranks second - behind marijuana use - as the nation's most prevalent illegal drug problem, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. But in tracking drugs like OxyContin, also known as "hillbilly heroin," officials must first distinguish drug abuse from mere "medical misuse," Compton says. Officials actually had to modify the NSDUH survey after realizing that some methamphetamine users failed to report using the drug because they were taking it with a prescription...
...concession speech in Charlestown last night, Flaherty wished Galluccio well and called him “a good man,” while reiterating the central issue on whichwhich he ran: stopping abuse of the painkiller Oxycontin...