Representations of OxyContin in North American Newspapers and Medical Journals
Following the approval of OxyContin (Purdue Pharma, Canada) for medical use, the media began to report the use of OxyContin as a street drug, representing the phenomenon as a social problem.Meanwhile, the pain medicine community has criticized the inaccurate and one-sided media coverage of the OxyContin problem.The authors of this study aimed to co