Is the Oxycontinet a Painkiller?

The idea ran into so much friction, and why it only spread to five other states. Medical associations said, are you kidding me? We're not going to give you the means to look over our shoulder. It does very clearly have a kind of a chilling effect on doctors prescribing habits. The oxycontinet was such a kind of extraordinary and lethal injection into the medical system that we really did need that kind of check in place.