Sentence examples for their painkiller from inspiring English sources

To a casual observer, it might have seemed that the makers of OxyContin, after years of obstructing efforts to curb the disastrous impacts of their painkiller, had finally seen the error of their ways.

Doctors feared that their painkiller stocks would dwindle in the 1980s.

As OxyContin's sales have plunged 40% in the U.S. in recent years, the family's Mundipharma companies have begun shifting their painkiller business into Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and other places.

"The idea that people become addicted to their painkillers is just wrong," she said.

For them, it doesn't matter that their painkillers actually kill people.

If it sounds plotless, it is, although the action picks up a little when Charlie starts breaking into people's homes to steal their painkillers.

In addition to the opioid-overdose deaths, there were patients who had died after mixing their painkillers with street drugs or alcohol, or after taking pills from friends who had been patients of Schneider's.

Some people chose to sell their painkillers on the black market.

"We would advise people with arthritis to seek an annual review of their painkillers with the GP so their risk of cardio-vascular risk can be regularly checked, and so that they can seek advice about alternatives to NSAIDs".

The lawsuit filed by Oklahoma claimed that in order to persuade doctors to prescribe their painkillers, Purdue, and other companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceutical, allegedly decided to "falsely downplay the risk of opioid addiction" and "overstate" the benefits of their drugs to treat a wide range of conditions.

Sanders noted in his letter that he plans to introduce legislation that would in part require companies to reimburse communities for the devastating economic consequences that their painkillers have caused.