"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Oxycontin Economics: OxyContin may go generic soon, and that has some worried that lower prices will mean more abuse:
If the price is reduced because the source is able to get it cheaper and sell it cheaper, then there's going to be more widespread distribution to a wider customer base,' said Sgt. Darrell Crandall, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency supervisor for Washington County, one of the areas where OxyContin addiction and abuse first took hold in Maine in 2000.
