contin.
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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The Strathpeffer and Contin Better Cable Route Group say they want a less disruptive route for the line.
From BBC
Sackler-Berner made no mention of Librium, Valium, or MS Contin, but he added, “Given the current controversy surrounding OxyContin, I appreciate your clarifying the matter.”
From The New Yorker
Purdue developed a pill of pure oxycodone, with a time-release formula similar to that of MS Contin.
From The New Yorker
During the nineteen-eighties, Raymond and Mortimer Sackler had a great success at Purdue with an innovative painkiller called MS Contin, a morphine pill with a patented “controlled release” formula: the drug dissolved gradually into the bloodstream over several hours.
From The New Yorker
In the summer of 1990, a Purdue scientist sent a memo to Richard and several other colleagues, pointing out that MS Contin could “face such serious generic competition that other controlled-release opioids must be considered.”
From The New Yorker
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