MMC will be attending the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) Annual Convention in Las Vegas, NV from March 21-25, 2011. MMC will be exhibiting at the 2011 IBEW Construction and Maintenance Conference (3/30 - 4/1) and Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD) National Legislative Conference (4/2 - 4/5) shows in Washington, D.C. and will also be active during that week at the Oklahoma NECA National Employee Benefits Day on April 4th. In the month of May, MMC will be at the Greenbrier Resort to attend and provide sponsorship for The Association of Union Constructors (TAUC) Leadership Conference (5/10 - 5/13) in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. We look forward to seeing everyone at this stellar line up of tradeshows and conferences!
The FDA recently voted in favor of pushing a new formulation of oxycodone hydrochloride for approval. The new OxyContin formula is more difficult to crush or dissolve which will hopefully make it harder to be used as a drug of abuse . The FDA recommended that Purdue Pharma's application for a new, resin-coated formulation should replace the original version, which has been on the market since 1996. Randall Flick, MD, an anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic who voted to recommend approval of the drug said, "Clearly the old formulation is worse than the new, although I think the difference is relatively small," Flick concluded, "Hardcore abusers are likely to devise new ways to break down the harder tablet or figure out which solvents will dissolve it fastest, within 'day or weeks' of the product's release on the market."