News

ARPO In The News

• Northern Ontario deaths probed for links to discontinuing OxyContin

• Is this what America Needs?… Watchdog ARPO Challenges FDA, Salem News, Marianne Skolek, February 26, 2012
• Global News | New pill, new rules coming to combat OxyContin abuse
• ARPO Issues Warning to FDA on New Hydrocodone Approvals
• ARPO Statement on FDA Prescription Opioid Blueprint
• ARPO Issues Statement on DEA Production Quotas
• ARPO Challenges Univerisity of Wisconsin Pain and Policy Studies Group
  • Email UW Chancellor
  • Reply from Dean Golden
  • Reply to Dean Golden
  • Journal Sentinel Watchdog Report
• CBC News Video (ARPO segment begins at 10:17 and ends at 16:15)
• Dr. Petros Levounis, Member of ARPO’s Medical Advisory Board, on ABC News, April 20, 2011 (Link to video)

Prescription Opioids in the News

• American Pain Foundation Shuts Down as Senators Launch Investigation of Prescription Narcotics, ProPublica, May 8, 2012
• Senate Inquiry into Narcotic Drug Makers’ Ties, New York Times, May 8, 2012
• ARPO Issues Call for Help on New Hydrocodone Approvals, May 5, 2012
• Is Anybody Normal Any More?, Globe & Mail; Margaret Wente, May 4, 2012
• Tens of Thousands Deal with Death & Addiction as American Pain Foundation Pushes Opioid Use, Salem News; Marianne Skolek, May 4, 2012
• Purdue Pharma’s ‘Painful’ Excuse for Mainstream American Drug Addiction, Marianne Skolek, Salem-News.com, April 28, 2012
• Painkiller sales soar around US, fuel addiction by Chris Hawley, AP, April 13, 2012
• Tightening the Lid on Pain Prescriptions by Barry Meier, New York Times, April 13, 2012
• An Open Letter to Victims and their Families Dealing with the Legal Drug, Oxycontin, Salem News, Marianne Skolek, March 18, 2012
• Time Bomb, The Fifth Estate, March 18, 2012
• Police Chief Targets Prescription Drug Abuse, Herald News, Nova Scotia, March 17, 2012
• Painkiller prescriptions after minor surgery can lead to chronic use, Toronto Study says, March 12, 2012
• Contemplating the Effects of OxyContin Suicide, Salem News.com by Marianne Skolek, February 29, 2012
• Is this what America Needs?… Watchdog ARPO Challenges FDA, Salem News, Marianne Skolek, February 26, 2012
• Opioids Are Rarely the Answer, The New York Times, February 15, 2012
• Deadly Conflict of Interest in Nova Scotia Over Prescription Drug Monitoring?, Salem-News.com Marianne Skolek, February 14, 2012
• How a scrap of paper is at the root of all ills when it comes to prescription drug abuse, CBC, Nova Scotia, Canada, February 3, 2012
• N.S. Minister of Education Looks at Drug Awareness Documentary for Local Schools, Get Prescription Drugs Off the Street, Amy Graves, January 22, 2012
• Prescription Drug Abuse Battle in Nassau County Turns Deadly, Reaches Epidemic Proportions, Salem News, by Marianne Skolek, January 19, 2012
• Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), January 14, 2012
• Addiction News Daily – Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, (CCSA), January 4, 2012
• Christmas in Heaven, Salem News, Marianne Skolek, December 25, 2011
• The Champion of Painkillers, ProPublica, Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, December 23, 2011
• Reflexive Relationship Between Opioids, Mood Disorders, Medpage Today, Kristina Fiore, December 22, 2011
• ARPO Issues Call for Help on FDA Opioid Proposal – Comments are Due December 7th!, December 6, 2011
• Deflecting the Real Drug Problem — The Loss of Human Life, Salem News, Marianne Skolek, December 5, 2011
• Generation Rx – The Role of Doctors in Opioid Abuse, CBC White Coat Black Art Blog 2011/11/30, December 4, 2011
• Blood Money and Purdue Pharma, Marianne Skolek Salem-News.com, November 27, 2011
• The Marketing of OxyContin, National Post, November 13, 2011
• Protecting Americans, FDA Style, November 13, 2011
• DA: Murray verdict a warning to corrupt doctors, Associated Press, November 7, 2011
• Help ARPO Petition DEA to Restrict Opioid Production !, November 5, 2011
• Annapolis Valley Pop. Seeks Help For Prescription Drugs More Than Alcohol And Nicotine COMBINED!, Get Prescription Drugs off the Street, October 25, 2011
• Rescheduling Hydrocodone, MedPage Today, Kristina Fiore, MedPage Today, Kristina Fiore, October 19, 2011
• Click here: Nation’s Overdose by Tracy Smith 10-16-11 CBS Sunday Morning – YouTube, October 18, 2011
• Summary Report – Illicit Use of Pharmaceuticals Workshop, Public Safety Canada, October 6, 2011
• ASAM Releases New Definition of Addiction, August 15, 2011, September 18, 2011
• Drug Deaths Now Outnumber Traffic Fatalities, 9/17/11 L.A. Times, September 18, 2011
• Facing Up to the Prescription Opioid Crisis, August 25, 2011
• Governments urged to better control painkiller availability, Toronto Star, August 23, 2011, August 24, 2011
• Screening addicts the bane of the suburban doctor, Baltimore Sun, August 17, 2011
• Database will allow Ontario to discipline over-prescribing doctors, The Globe and Mail, August 11, 2011, August 17, 2011
• Time for action on prescription drug abuse, Kings County News - The Register/Advertiser, Annapolis Valley, Maryland, August 17, 2011, August 17, 2011
• Ontario slow to act on prescription drug reforms, doctors charge, The Globe and Mail, July 12, 2011
• Prescription drug deaths soar in Michigan, Detroit Free Press, July 11, 2011
• Addiction and death: The mounting toll from prescription narcotics, Rabble.ca, June 30, 2011
• Drug deaths skyrocketing, inquest told, The Recorder & Times, June 24, 2011
• Painkillers are a gateway to heroin, CNN, June 23, 2011
• Fractured health-care system sets scene for drug deaths, Rabble.ca, June 21, 2011
• States cut drug penalties as Canada toughens them, CBC News, June 17, 2011
• Making money from misery in Surrey, Surrey Now, June 17, 2011
• Richard Sinnott: Simple solution for Oxycontin abuse: Ban it, TC Palm, June 14, 2011
• Painkiller plague: Valuable lessons from Down Under, The Star, June 12, 2011
• Are Oxycontin Doctors Overmedicating Kids to Death?, Salem-News, June 5, 2011
• Bringing addiction into the realm of health, CCSA Action News, June 1, 2011
• Generic Vicodin Easiest Opioid to Prescribe, MedPage Today, April 24, 2011
• Critics Wary of FDA’s REMS for Long-Acting Opioids, MedPage Today, April 20, 2011
• Bono Mack urges action on prescription drug abuse at hearing, Desert Sun, April 13, 2011
• High doses of opioids tied to risk of death – study adds to growing evidence that painkillers are being overprescribed and misused, Globe and Mail, April 11, 2011
• Academics Profit by Making the Case for Opioid Painkillers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today, April 3, 2011
• Head of Canada’s National Addictions Agency is Reporting on Global Achievements to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, CCSA Media Advisory, March 23, 2011
• Canada – First Walk for Drug Awareness in the World, March 21, 2011
• Study casts doubts over Tory strategy on illicit drug use, Winnipeg Free Press, March 20, 2011
• Treatment: Education program needed, Sarnia doctor says, London Free Press, March 18, 2011
• Government of Canada Works with Nunavut to Help Prevent Young People from Taking Illicit Drugs, Health Canada Website, March 16, 2011
• Prisons alone won’t win war on drugs, Boston Herald, March 16, 2011
• OxyContin prescriptions by Ontario MDs vary greatly, study finds, Montreal Gazette, March 16, 2011
• Teens-in-detox figures soar, Telegraph-Journal, March 16, 2011
• Opioid prescribing varies widely among Ontario doctors, Toronto Star, March 14, 2011
• Province happy with progress of family treatment centre, Prince Albert Daily Herald, March 11, 2011
• Stiff drug penalties are tough on youth, students tell MPs, Globe and Mail, March 10, 2011
• Mental illness, addiction prevalent among high school students: speaker, Inside Halton, March 9, 2011
• Edmonton inquiry urges funding for war on prison drugs, Edmonton Journal, March 9, 2011
• Oxy addicts drive surge in demand for methadone., Winnepeg Sun, March 7, 2011
• Why has Ontario introduced a new narcotics strategy?, Irfan Dhalla & Karen Born, February 22, 2011
• High doses, frequency of opioid prescribing are troubling, Ontario Study, January 25, 2011
• U of T pain class bars drug-maker influence, The Canadian Press, December 23, 2010
• Ontario tightens controls on Prescription Drugs, November 29, 2010
• Lack of training for Canadian doctors contributing to narcotics crisis, September 9, 2010
• The relative abuse liability of oral oxycodone, hydrocodone and hydromorphone assessed in prescription opioid abusers, Drug Alcohol Depend, December 1, 2008
• Abuse liability of prescription opioids compared to heroin in morphine-maintained heroin abusers, Neuropsychopharmacology, April 1, 2008