The OxyContin epidemic and crime panic in rural Kentucky

KD Tunnell - Contemporary Drug Problems, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
During the late 1990s in the United States, rural Kentucky (and rural pockets of nearby
states) witnessed the emergence of a new pharmaceutical drug of abuse. The powerful …

[HTML][HTML] Telling the story of the opioid crisis: A narrative analysis of the TV series Dopesick

J Piqué-Buisan, JE Baños, I Cambra-Badii - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Dopesick (2021) is the first TV series whose plot deals exclusively with the opioid crisis in
the United States. The current study uses narrative analysis and framing theory to explore …

Cultural Constructions of the Hillbilly Heroin and Crime Problem: Introduction: constructing the problem

KD Tunnell - Cultural criminology unleashed, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Introduction: constructing the problem OxyContin (trade name), an oxycodone drug, was
approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1995 and first …

Inductive risk and OxyContin: the ethics of evidence and post-market surveillance of pharmaceuticals in Canada

I Bavli, D Steel - Public Health Ethics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The argument from inductive risk claims that judgments about the moral severity of errors are
relevant to decisions about what should count as sufficient evidence for accepting claims …

The OxyContin crisis: Problematisation and responsibilisation strategies in addiction, pain, and general medicine journals

E Whelan, M Asbridge - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Background OxyContin®(Purdue Pharma, LP, Stamford, CT) is now widely
regarded as a drug of abuse fueling a larger opioid health crisis. While coverage in the …

When public health goes wrong: the history and ethics of public health errors

I Bavli - 2021 - open.library.ubc.ca
This dissertation comprises three papers examining the historical, ethical, and social
aspects of public health errors. My first paper explores how US health authorities responded …

[PDF][PDF] OxyContin Abuse Problem Appears NOT limited to the US: The Ethics of Post-Market Surveillance of Pharmaceuticals in Canada

I Bavli, D Steel - med-fom-spph-ethics.sites.olt.ubc.ca
In January 1996, following the decision of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health
Canada (HC) approved OxyContin (an opioid) for the treatment of chronic pain. HC stated at …

[CITATION][C] Industry influence and Health Canada's responsibility: lessons from the opioid epidemic in Canada

I Bavli - Addiction, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Misleading claims that appeared in the OxyContin product monograph, which understated
the risks associated with the drug, were used by Purdue in its promotional practices. The …