Oxycontin

By Brad Lockwood

This volume examines the underreported problem of teenagers' easy accessibility to prescription painkillers that often leads to addiction. Readers witness OxyContin's transition from a pain reliever for cancer patients to the cause of drug overdose deaths by abusers.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1404209131
• ISBN13: 9781404209138
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12