Posted AT 11:01 PM EDT on 26/08/05
N.B. leads Atlantic Canada for oxycodone use
Although it was Newfoundland and Nova Scotia that first raised alarms about the abuse of so-called “hillbilly heroin” in Atlantic Canada, it is New Brunswick that accounts for most of the prescriptions for the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone, a new Health Canada report says.
During the first six months of 2005, more than 92,500 prescriptions were filled for oxycodone-based painkillers such as OxyContin at 651 retail pharmacies throughout the Atlantic provinces.
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