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Drider_it · 09-28-2004, 03:30 AM

From a local station here...

wow talk about your discount. Man i gotta look into this drug. Never really thought about it. I can tell you though that they pills are as good as sold by now.

http://ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=2356168&nav=0RY5RNF9

A man armed with a shotgun walked into a busy Shreveport supermarket Monday afternoon and demanded a popular and powerful painkiller. "He demanded oxycontin," said Detective Craig Ivy. "No other narcotics that we know of, he just demanded that kind of drug." The man made off with several hundred pills of the drug, police said. The gun believed to be used in the holdup was discovered in a dumpster behind an animal hospital a few hundred yards from the store.

Last month, two armed men held a gun to the pharmacist at Eckerd's on Mansfield Road, just down the street from Monday's crime scene. The men forced the pharmacist to open a locked drawer and stole 400 pills of Oxcontin, police said. Both men are still at large and detectives say they believe one of them may be the man who robbed Albertson's Monday.

Oxycontin holdups are a growing problem in many parts of the country, according to Keith Billiot, agent in charge of the Shreveport office of the Drug Enforcement Administration. "It's been likened to the same addictive qualities as heroin or crack cocaine," Billiot said. "It's amazingly addictive." A owner of a drug store in Tennessee stopped selling the drug in 2002 after his store had four Oxycontin holdups in less than a year.

A check of several pharmacies in the Shreveport area showed the average price of 80 milligram tablets of Oxycontin is 10 dollars each. The drug can sell for four times that amount on the streets, Billiot said.

09-28-2004, 03:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
Drider_it Junkie Location: Louisiana	Ever wonder how to pay for percription drugs?.. sad From a local station here... wow talk about your discount. Man i gotta look into this drug. Never really thought about it. I can tell you though that they pills are as good as sold by now. http://ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=2356168&nav=0RY5RNF9 A man armed with a shotgun walked into a busy Shreveport supermarket Monday afternoon and demanded a popular and powerful painkiller. "He demanded oxycontin," said Detective Craig Ivy. "No other narcotics that we know of, he just demanded that kind of drug." The man made off with several hundred pills of the drug, police said. The gun believed to be used in the holdup was discovered in a dumpster behind an animal hospital a few hundred yards from the store. Last month, two armed men held a gun to the pharmacist at Eckerd's on Mansfield Road, just down the street from Monday's crime scene. The men forced the pharmacist to open a locked drawer and stole 400 pills of Oxcontin, police said. Both men are still at large and detectives say they believe one of them may be the man who robbed Albertson's Monday. Oxycontin holdups are a growing problem in many parts of the country, according to Keith Billiot, agent in charge of the Shreveport office of the Drug Enforcement Administration. "It's been likened to the same addictive qualities as heroin or crack cocaine," Billiot said. "It's amazingly addictive." A owner of a drug store in Tennessee stopped selling the drug in 2002 after his store had four Oxycontin holdups in less than a year. A check of several pharmacies in the Shreveport area showed the average price of 80 milligram tablets of Oxycontin is 10 dollars each. The drug can sell for four times that amount on the streets, Billiot said. __________________ It means only one thing, and everything: Cut. Once committed to fight, Cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides that one. Cut. The lines are a portrayal of the dance. Cut from the void, not from bewilderment. Cut the enemy as quickly and directly as possible. Cut with certainty. Cut decisively, resoultely. Cut into his strength. Flow through the gaps in his guard. Cut him. Cut him down utterly. Don't allow him a breath. Crush him. Cut him without mercy to the depth of his spirit. It is the balance to life: death. It is the dance with death. It is the law a war wizard lives by, or he dies.