What is Oxycodone Addiction?
Oxycodone is a drug that is prescribed a lot in Canada, especially in the province of Ontario. The fact that in 2003 alone, there were 2.8 million prescriptions, most of them happening in Ontario, means that a lot of people have an oxycodone addiction and this addiction can be a big problem for any individual. OxyContin is the major brand of oxycodone sold in Canada. And just to show how many people are affected by oxcycodone addiction, in Ontario, there were more than 100 people who died that had oxycodone in their body at the time of death in 2003 alone. That statistics is ten times what it was ten years ago. In Toronto, a opioid addiction treatment center noticed that they were admitting a lot more people for OxyContin addiction. They said that the rate of OxyContin dependent patient they had went from around 4% to over 55%. So the problem of oxycodone addiction is escalating in Toronto. Over in Newfoundland and Labrador, they are spending millions of dollars every year to treat Oxy
