OXYCONTIN GETS BUM RAP IN NEWS

Those who do not realize that The Birmingham News is not the New
England Journal of Medicine may have a very skewed view of OxyContin
and the patients who are saved from constant pain because of it.

I bristled when I read the misinformation in a recent article on the
way Oxycontin's delivery system works. It's not the delivery system
that makes the drug dangerous; it's criminals who deliberately alter
it for illicit purposes that makes it dangerous. The timed-released
system is not in the outer coating; it is throughout the matrix of the
tablet. The correct information is available at every pharmacy, and
you've yet to get the technical information correct.

This frequent misinformation has caused many legitimate patients to
refuse the relief that OxyContin provides. However, you were able to
correctly show all the curious youths in Birmingham how to crush, melt
down and inject OxyContin for a possibly lethal high.

Please don't send Saddam the instructions for nuclear weapons. Oh, go
ahead. It wouldn't be right, anyway.

Faye Dozier

Hoover