Last year, about 16,000 Americans died from treating their arthritis with FDA-approved drugs such as Advil and Aleve�so-called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. That's what happens if millions of people, to treat their chronic pain, take a kind of drug that can increase the risk of bleeding ulcers and other complications when used over long periods. During the same time, around 200 people died from the purposeful abuse of oxycodone, the active ingredient of OxyContin and other powerful analgesics. With terrible shortsightedness, federal bureaucrats have now decided that the second number is the problem.

btw I too, got an ulcer from a naproxen (alleve) rx

My doctor gave me a script for vioxx, for arthritis, i never filled it because I didn't feel I needed it. He said it wasn't as bad on your stomach though but wtf, I don't have arthritic back! He never even taken an ex-ray.

Yeah, I've known of many ppl od'ing on oxycontins and dilodids. Maybe it's because ppl take them to make them feel the way heroin makes them feel. Like snorting oxy's and bootin dilodids.