I am a writer, journalist, professor, systems modeler, computational, AI, and digital health expert, medical doctor, avocado-eater, and entrepreneur, not always in that order. Currently, I am a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health, Executive Director of PHICOR (@PHICORteam) and Center for Advanced Technology and Communication in Health (CATCH), and founder and CEO of Symsilico. My previous positions include serving as Profess
I am a writer, journalist, professor, systems modeler, computational and digital health expert, avocado-eater, and entrepreneur, not always in that order.This isn’t quite like finding a single curly fry among your regular French fries. KVK-Tech, Inc. detected something that didn’t belong among the blood pressure medications that the company was packaging to be delivered around the country: a single 5 mg oxycodone HCl tablet.
Oxycodone is a semi-synthetic narcotic that is typically prescribed for pain relief but has also been a popular drug of abuse. In addition to pain relief, oxycodone can cause sedation, feelings of euphoria, constipation, contraction of your pupils—meaning those in your eyes and students that you may be teaching—and respiratory depression. Respiratory depression isn’t when your lungs are feeling down. It’s when your breathing rate slows, potentially to dangerously low rates.
It’s not clear whether just that one oxycodone tablet made its way onto the production line or there were others as well. There haven’t been any reports of consumers finding oxycodone among their betaxolol tablets or adverse events.Medicare Part D Drug Coverage In 2024 Some Will Pay Less But Will Others Pay MoreIt’s also not clear how that rogue tablet got to where it was. Oxycodone tablets don’t have little feet. So there must have been some mistake in the production process.
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