Elite Pharmaceuticals Inc (ELTP)

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Not sure why that is funny about drug addiction. Here is a post of abusers talking about how to defeat them

http://www.topix.com/forum/drug/oxycontin/T7BD58FHK59JMQCDJ


Critics allege OxyNEO was introduced in Canada because of impending patent expiry

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1165664--critics-allege-oxyneo-was-introduced-in-canada-because-of-impending-patent-expiry


Here is what I had remembered. Just google Oxyneo and canada and you can read for hours. Also folks have been trying to inject the stuff and apparently it has killed some folks.

ORONTO - Saskatchewan has joined Ontario and the Atlantic provinces in taking steps to stop funding the painkiller OxyContin, and a new version of the drug, OxyNeo.

The changes coincide with plans by the manufacturer, Purdue Pharma Canada of Pickering, Ont., to discontinue producing OxyContin at the end of February and replace it with OxyNeo.

Starting at the end of the month, Saskatchewan will only pay for OxyNeo for cancer or palliative care patients. Existing patients who have received coverage of OxyContin in the three months prior to March 1 will be eligible for coverage of OxyNeo.

Earlier Tuesday, Nova Scotia Health Minister Maureen MacDonald said cancer patients and those in palliative care who are already prescribed OxyContin would continue to receive the drug.

In a notice released Friday, the Ontario Health Ministry said OxyNeo would be funded through the province's Exceptional Access Program, which places prescriptions of the drug under tighter controls.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/02/22/oxycontin-canada-saskatchewan-ontario_n_1292895.html