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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
health officials now say that OxyContin has become ...