A 'Wonder' Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death, targeted on a higher-acknowledged story approximately painkillers, particularly the pandemic of abuse that passed off surrounding the effective drug OxyContin, specifically by using teenagers searching for a new excessive. Barry Meier became interviewed by means of his paper on June 23, 2013, and elaborated on what he changed into seeking to do with his eloquent writings on painkillers, why docs and patients withstand giving them up, and some of the aspect outcomes of these tablets. "A decade in the past, drug organizations and health workers released a 'War on Pain' that promoted the vast use of effective narcotic painkillers for not unusual conditions along with lower back ache," Meier advised the Times. "Specialists claimed that a 'brilliant line' separated the drugs' benefits for patients from their risks whilst abused on the road via young people and others." Today, Meier says, many of those identical experts who as soon as encouraged painkilling drugs have had a exchange of heart. They have reached the revised end that the opioid increase "ranks among remedy's biggest mistakes."