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The Great OxyContin Scare

By Trevor Butterworth, STATS. Posted August 30, 2004.


By portraying OxyContin as a home-grown weapon of mass destruction, the media have inflicted enormous damage to the medical community's attempts to treat chronic pain in millions of Americans.
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Trevor Butterworth is the editor of the media watchdog group STATS and a Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Public Affairs.

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