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...Percogesic?" I asked, with mock innocence. This is the non-narcotic pain reliever whose primary selling point is a name quite similar to the highly addictive Percocet that Charlene was trying to get me to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Real is Your Pain? | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...Percocet! That's right, Percocet. They worked really well, no side effects or anything. That's what I need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Real is Your Pain? | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...Percocet from me. The patient is still out of work. Pain worsening. Initiating a possible lawsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Real is Your Pain? | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

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 »

...never counsel anyone to break a federal law, but I do wonder whether there are any medical risks in buying drugs online. It depends, it seems, on what sort of drugs you buy. The FDA has started cracking down hard--as it should--on companies that sell narcotics like Percocet and OxyContin on the Web. And the agency has been conducting spot checks on pills shipped from overseas that have not been approved for use in the U.S. Some drugs sent from Canada also may not pass FDA muster, according to Mary Wiktorowicz of York University's School of Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Blame Canada | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

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