Oxycontin Rehab Treatment Facilities Windsor, Ontario, Oxycontin Addiction Detox Windsor, ON

“A new study found Ontario’s most frequent opioid-prescribing family doctors wrote 55 times more prescriptions for the narcotics that physicians who prescribed the drug the least.” A new study highlights the issue of opioid-related deaths, which have surged in recent years to the point where they are now considered more common in some places than deaths from HIV. The report, which looks at data from 2006, was published in recently in the periodical Canadian Family Physician.

In Windsor, Ontario, a class action law suit has been proposed against the Purdue group of companies on behalf of all persons in Canada who have been prescribed and have ingested Oxycontin, a prescription opioid pain medication. The class action concerns an alleged conspiracy by the defendants to market and promote Oxycontin in Canada as less addictive than the drug was known to be to the defendants, and for a wider range of patients and pain treatments than approved by Health Canada.  In particular, it is alleged that the defendants conspired to conceal the addictive properties and effect of the drug from regulatory authorities, health practitioners and class members. The action also alleges that the defendants were negligent in the development, manufacture, distribution, marketing and sale of Oxycontin. This is being done in response to a class action lawsuit filed in Toronto, Ontario.

Some of the side effects of this drug include dizziness, nausea, impotence, clammy skin, respiratory arrest, abdominal pain, dry mouth, and in some severe cases even without abusing the drug, death can occur. This is a drug that has a high chance of developing a tolerance for it, at which point the addict would need to consume more of the drug in order to experience the same “high” as they had before. This leads to greater risk of overdose since people will often crush the pills and snort or inject them, which is very dangerous.

It is excessively important that addicts get into an Oxycontin detox program or Oxycontin rehab treatment in order to be under supervision when undergoing withdrawal. We can you find the best Oxycontin rehab or detox for you or a loved one.