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OxyContin: When a painkiller kills (OxyContin series)

by Laurence Hammack | Jun 10, 2001 | Addiction/drug abuse

The bars of the Lee County Jail are all that keeps Emmanuel Ketron from injecting more OxyContin into his tattooed, needle-scarred arms. Ketron is so addicted to the prescription painkiller that he became a thief to finance his habit. He stole guns and tools from his...
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