Many of you have had questions about extended-release medications. Although many different types of medication come in extended-release form, probably the most frequently asked questions here are related to the extended-release opioid pain reliever OxyContin.
The questions range from how much medication is actually in an extended-release tablet to the confusion about the multiple acronyms used to identify them. Did you know there are more than a dozen different acronyms that all basically...
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