Media Corrections: “OxyContin” or “Oxy” Often Misleadingly Used as
Shorthand for oxycodone & Prescription Opioids Generally
- Corrected headline: Tracking spread of oxycodone across the U.S. was “like a monster movie” says Scott Higham
- Original headline: Tracking spread of oxycontin across the U.S. was “like a monster movie” says Scott Higham
- Corrected language: From writer-director-actor Nicholas Jarecki comes “Crisis,” an “inspired-by-true-events,” “Traffic”-tale of drugs, one of them a supposedly improved version of oxycodone,
- Original language: From writer-director-actor Nicholas Jarecki comes “Crisis,” an “inspired-by-true-events,” “Traffic”-tale of drugs, one of them a supposedly improved version of Oxycontin,
- Corrected language: Biology professor Dr. Tyrone Brower (Gary Oldman) has discovered that the new drug, dubbed Klaralon, instead of being a safe version of oxycodone, is three times more addictive.
- Original language: Biology professor Dr. Tyrone Brower (Gary Oldman) has discovered that the new drug, dubbed Klaralon, instead of being a safe version of Oxycontin, is three times more addictive.
- (Corrected March 17, 2021) “Crisis” IMDb Summary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9731682/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
- Corrected language: Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an oxycodone addiction...
- Original language: Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction…
- Corrected language: We follow an undercover DEA Agent (Armie Hammer), a mother and recovering Oxycodone addict (Evangeline Lily)...
- Original language: We follow an undercover DEA Agent (Armie Hammer), a mother and recovering OxyContin addict (Evangeline Lily)...
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- For the record, 11:11 AM, Mar. 15, 2021: This review incorrectly references the prescription pain medicine OxyContin. The film uses the generic term “oxy.”
- Corrected language: Caught between them is Claire Reimann (Evangeline Lilly), a recovering oxycodone addict embroiled in uncovering her son's role in a narcotics scheme.
- Original language: Caught between them is Claire Reimann (Evangeline Lilly), a recovering OxyContin addict embroiled in uncovering her son's role in a narcotics scheme.
- Corrected language: Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s involvement with narcotics,
- Original language: Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s involvement with narcotics,
- Corrected language: Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s involvement with narcotics,
- Original language: Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s involvement with narcotics,
- Corrected language: Tyrone Brower (Gary Oldman) is a professor and scientist who finds himself in hot water when he discovers that the company that funds his research is developing a highly addictive drug- even though they’re touting it is a nonaddictive alternative to oxycodone.
- Original language: Tyrone Brower (Gary Oldman) is a professor and scientist who finds himself in hot water when he discovers that the company that funds his research is developing a highly addictive drug- even though they’re touting it is a nonaddictive alternative to oxycontin.
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- Original language: Detective Jake Kelly (Armie Hammer) has a personal interest in investigating the drug trade in Detroit. His sister (Lily Rose-Depp) is struggling with an Oxycontin addiction that’s incapacitated her.
- Corrected language: A drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation. An architect recovering from an oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's disappearance.
- Original language: Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics...
- Corrected language: Speaking of Oregon, that state got even more progressive with its drug laws -- voting to decriminalize possession of small amounts of cocaine, heroin, oxycodone and meth.
- Original language: Speaking of Oregon, that state got even more progressive with its drug laws -- voting to decriminalize possession of small amounts of cocaine, heroin, Oxycontin and meth.
- Corrected language: The Washington Post reports that Oregon voted in a landslide to decriminalize carrying small amounts of illegal drugs, including heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine.
- Original language: The Washington Post reports that Oregon voted in a landslide to decriminalize carrying small amounts of illegal drugs, including heroin, Oxycontin, cocaine, and methamphetamine.
- Corrected language: In addition, Oregon voters on Tuesday passed a measure to decriminalize the possession of street drugs and will no longer arrest or sentence those carrying small amounts of drugs like cocaine, heroin, oxycodone and methamphetamine.
- Original language: In addition, Oregon voters on Tuesday passed a measure to decriminalize the possession of street drugs and will no longer arrest or sentence those carrying small amounts of drugs like cocaine, heroin, oxycontin and methamphetamine.
- Removed language: The passage of Oregon’s Measure 110 means the state’s residents will no longer face arrests or prison sentences for carrying small amounts of drugs like cocaine, heroin, oxycontin and methamphetamine.
- Corrected headline: Bachelor in Paradise star Jackson Garlick comes under fire for sharing a snap of oxycodone pills and alcohol with the caption 'name a better duo'
- Original headline: Bachelor in Paradise star Jackson Garlick comes under fire for sharing a snap of OxyContin pills and alcohol with the caption 'name a better duo'
- Corrected language: The pharmaceutical medication is used to treat patients with severe pain and can cause dangerous, and sometimes fatal, side effects when mixed with alcohol.
- Original language: The pharmaceutical medication, which is commonly referred to the brand name OxyContin, is used to treat patients with severe pain and can cause dangerous, and sometimes fatal, side effects when mixed with alcohol.
- Corrected language: The legal opioid industry continued to grow with the introduction of OxyContin in 1996.
- Original language:The legal opioid industry blew up with the introduction of OxyContin in 1996.
- Corrected language: Under unique circumstances, the use of a legal drug prescribed for legitimate reasons can result in people pursuing illegal drugs in order to satisfy their addictions. [Removed “OxyContin”]
- Original language: Under unique circumstances, the use of a legal drug (OxyContin) prescribed for legitimate reasons has led people to pursue illegal drugs in order to satisfy their addictions.
- Corrected language: Purdue’s flagship drug, OxyContin, was launched in 1996 with the highly addictive oxycodone as the single active molecule. Oxycodone has had devastating consequences in Connecticut. According to the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, between 2012 and 2019, there were 707 accidental overdose deaths involving oxycodone, though the office does not indicate how many, if any, of these deaths involved OxyContin.
- Original language: Launched in 1996 with the highly addictive oxycodone as the single active molecule, Purdue’s flagship drug left in its wake a swath of devastation in Connecticut. Between 2012 and 2019, there were 839 overdose deaths from oxycodone and hydrocodone alone.
- Corrected language: Oxycontin, a controlled-release form of the powerful opioid oxycodone, was approved in 1995 for pain relief and then vigorously marketed by pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists.
- Original language: Oxycodone, a powerful opioid marketed as OxyContin, was approved in 1995 for pain relief and then vigorously marketed by pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists.
- Corrected language: Widespread sale of the drug, as well as generic versions and other oxycodone and hydrocodone tablets that were widely sold by a handful of big companies, also set the stage for subsequent waves of heroin and fentanyl abuse in communities throughout the country, especially Appalachia, according to authorities.
- Original language: Widespread sale of the drug, and generic versions that were widely sold by a handful of big companies, also set the stage for subsequent waves of heroin and fentanyl abuse in communities throughout the country, especially Appalachia, according to authorities.