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Article: OXYCONTIN ABUSE CAUSING PROBLEMS IN MIAMI VALLEY- PAINKILLER PILL OF CHOICE FOR MANY ADDICTS
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- January 27, 2002
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Abuse leads to more overdose deaths, crime in Dayton area
DAYTON - The man didn't have a prescription for the painkilling
drug OxyContin when he walked into Mike Karn's pharmacy. But he
walked out with 100 pills after holding a 6-inch knife in front of
Karn's face.
The day after the September robbery at his Medicine Shoppe, in
Clayton's Randolph Plaza, Karn took OxyContin off his shelves and
placed a sign on the door: "Sorry we do not stock OxyContin."
Abuse of OxyContin, the nation's best-selling prescription
painkiller, began in Maine and Virginia, spread to Kentucky and West
Virginia and moved into Ohio about two years ago. Narcotics and