Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in full Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky, Dostoyevsky also spelled Dostoevsky (born November 11 [October 30, Old Style], 1821, Moscow, Russiaâdied February 9 [January 28, Old Style], 1881, St. Petersburg), Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together ...
On December 12, 1995, the Food and Drug Administration approved the opioid analgesic OxyContin. It hit the market in 1996. In its first year, OxyContin accounted for $45 million in sales for its manufacturer, Stamford, Connecticut-based pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma. By 2000 that number would balloon to $1.1 billion, an increase of well over 2,000 percent in a span of just four years.
OxyContin was developed to treat patients with chronic pain. One of the main health benefits of OxyContin is its ability to treat pain for up to 12 hours due to a time-release component within the drug. Over the course of 12 hours, the drug releases Oxycodone. Individuals who abuse OxyContin use alternative methods of administration in order to eliminate the time-release mechanism of the drug. Users often crush the tablet to swallow, snort or smoke the drug.