"It has been far more beneficial to me than other medications they have recommended to me, including powerful narcotics like morphine, Demoral and codeine."

This has damaged Andrys severely, making him dependent on many different kinds of powerful narcotics, and alcohol.

Governments have been constantly torn and divided over how to limit or control the uses of these powerful narcotics.

But they were really powerful, powerful narcotics.

As OxyContin's marketing message spread, the drug caught on with many doctors who medical experts said had little experience in prescribing powerful narcotics.

But end-of-life care experts say the triplicate requirement, recently eliminated in New York, often keeps doctors from prescribing the most powerful narcotics.

Now I had a bottle of powerful narcotics.

Also, he said, many doctors worry about prescribing powerful narcotics for chronic pain.

If the searing pain was unbearable, it could be blunted with powerful narcotics.

Today's hearing came as lawmakers grappled with how to prevent powerful narcotics like OxyContin from falling into the wrong hands.