A Prescription for Ruin. Charlie Gillis.
by Gillis, Charlie; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 73Health. Publisher: Maclean's, 2004ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Atlantic Provinces | Drug abuse -- Canada | Drug abuse and crime | Drug traffic -- Canada | Medication abuse | Narcotic addicts | Oxycodone | Prescription drugs -- CanadaDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The 10-minute trip from Donkin, N.S., to downtown Glace Bay is the kind even locals seldom tire of driving. The narrow, seaside highway winds through one of those postcard stretches of coastal Cape Breton, among churches and cemeteries and shoebox houses that seem to cling to the hills above the water. But when Morley Prendergast drove it during his last year of high school, he rarely noticed the sights. By then, the route had dimmed in his mind to a single, vital line--his sole link to the potent prescription painkiller OxyContin." (MACLEAN'S) The author contends that the "illicit trade in the painkiller OxyContin is bringing crime, addiction--and death--to the Atlantic provinces."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: A Prescription for Ruin, May 24, 2004; pp. 54+.
"The 10-minute trip from Donkin, N.S., to downtown Glace Bay is the kind even locals seldom tire of driving. The narrow, seaside highway winds through one of those postcard stretches of coastal Cape Breton, among churches and cemeteries and shoebox houses that seem to cling to the hills above the water. But when Morley Prendergast drove it during his last year of high school, he rarely noticed the sights. By then, the route had dimmed in his mind to a single, vital line--his sole link to the potent prescription painkiller OxyContin." (MACLEAN'S) The author contends that the "illicit trade in the painkiller OxyContin is bringing crime, addiction--and death--to the Atlantic provinces."
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