A Massachusetts congressman thinks the painkiller OxyContin is just as dangerous as heroin and should be pulled from the market altogether

A Massachusetts congressman thinks the painkiller OxyContin is just as dangerous as heroin and should be pulled from the market altogether

“Think of what would happen if we sold heroin out of drugstores. There would be a lot of robberies of drugstores. Well, this is the same effect we’re having by selling OxyContin because the addictive qualities of this drug are driving these robberies.”