Drider_it

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.

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Menoman

Hmmm what is this oxycontin anyway? I've never heard of it.

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Hash_Browns

google search: Oxycontin : OxyContin Q&A

My Mother-in-Law was on this pill, 60 milligrams or something, 4 times a day, everyday! This is a pill that had to be written out on a specific kind of Rx pad, because it is a narcotic. She was quite addicted to this drug, and without it could hardly get out of bed. She was diabetic, and I have no doubt that they helped, but I also wouldn't be suprised if she used a few extra here and there for a little 'umph'. She, come to find out, also used to 'sell and/or trade' them to one of her friends for milk and cash (she couldn't get out of the house alone because of her disease) and this lady would bring it over to her house.

She (m-i-l) passed away last July, and a few friends and myself went through the house and dumped every pill bottle and sample packet we could find, before the long lost relatives came over and seen how many pills she lived off of, or her friends came over and started raiding her 'leftovers'. Some even asked about where they were cuz they wanted some...

Anyhow, this drug screwed up more then one of her friends in the sense that it was so strong, and unlike anything they have ever 'dealt' with before, they got sick and quite uncomfortable..and they were used to all kinds of other choice drugs . It really sucks people have to stoop so low as to rob pharmacies with guns for a pill smaller then an Altoid and get paid double for it...It's gonna suck for those people who really need something like that to survive the pain and have at least a bit of a life.

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asshopo

Oxycontin is a drug that is basicly time released watered-down drug similar to morphine. My mom was on that drug for the last few years of her life and trust me, people that use this stuff get addicted. She would go into a rage about not having them if I had to wait till the end of the day to get them from the pharmacy because I had to work.

feelgood

Damn...

Up in Canada, if you were on prescribed drugs, it would be free and covered by the health care system.

On the other hand, the feds have a strict law against obtaining non-prescribed drugs.

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Hash_Browns

the M-I-L I was talking about, would be asshopo's Mom....rage is an understatement if she had to wait longer then she wanted to!!

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itwasntme

the big problems start when people crush the pills up i understand

Glory's Sun

this is coming from a friend of mine who is a doctor. he says in laymans terms oxycontin is basically synthetic heroin. It's heroin made in a lab without all the crap you would get on the street. That's why it's addictive nature is so high. The problem doesn't start when you crush the pill.. it starts when you take the pill crushed or not. I've taken one twice and the feeling is one of bliss almost. You feel numb, but not overly numb. You're in your own world and you watch the world go on around you with out a care. After taking it twice I'll never take it again due to the addictive nature already talked about. I can see how people would be so easily taken with the drug.

Rodney

Edit -- texted removed. Didn't actually know what I was talking about.

Lebell

This isn't about how to pay for a drug, it is about either drug dealers or addicts robbing a pharmacy.

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strcrssd

This goes back to a need for legalizing all drugs, then putting the cash that can be saved from "drug enforcement" into medical programs for the addicted.

Put big warning labels, but people will always be looking for an escape...and always abuse drugs, legal or not. If we make them legal, at least they can be regulated for purity...not cut with powdered glass.

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Grancey

My mother was on oxycontin the last few years of her life. I suppose it was for the best to help her deal with the cancer pain, but it is an extremely powerful drug and people are not the same when they start taking it.

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The_wall

guccilvr is right on, its synthetic heroin. I've taken them myself, and you feel really really good. And yes they are as addictive as heroin, I'm glad I can't get these things whenever I want.

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Glory's Sun

thanx..

They are pretty common around here. You can tell the people who take them regularly. They end up having to leave work early or not going to work at all. They become distant and lazy, they start shaking and curling up in balls of pain if they can't get a hit (I'm talking about the people addicted hardcore here) and it's just like heroin addicts..they have to be put on methodone or weened off the OC's at a decent rate or the detox could kill em. It's sad to see. The drug has it's good uses when it's used right and like mentioned earlier it's isn't really the drug that's so bad it's the abuse that's bad. As far as someone saying it is mixed with powdered glass...I've never seen that combination around here.. and most of the time when you buy an OC it comes in pill form..you decide how you're going to take it.. crushed, whole, time release or non. IF *YOU* yourself mix it with glass well then it's just a speedball.

Kalnaur

My mother was on this stuff for pain. I believe she's off it now, but good God it took her a while to kick the pill.

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Drider_it

heh they said 10 times the value on the street that fucker sells them all he nets 10k
must be nice.. work for shit wages or take a chance and sell drugs .. no wonder

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Cynthetiq

that's what Rush Limbaugh was hooked on...

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Temporary_User

OC's are bad news!!
Some of my old friends from HS got into those hardcore, then moved to heroin.
Now one of them are in jail because of his addiction which led him to rob people for his fix. Shame
I've tried them on a few occasions, and one night of parting I took some and had a near fatal OD. I woke up w/ paramedics all around me.

Fire

I was prescribed oc for three months due to a spiral fracture, and the ensuing surgery- sadly, for me, I have a very inconvienient immunity to a whole lot of painkillers- All natural opiates do NOTHING at all to me- to the point of really freaking out my anestisiologist- the oc was for me like an asprin would be to someone else- oc did anything at all only because it was a synthetic, btw dimmeroll ( i know the spelling is off) also worked, actually quite well just after the surgery, I do belive that the oc's are highly addictive to most, as when it was discovered that i had a supply (did not take all of em cause they werent effective) not one but two co- workers ask me to hook them up (both had had it on perscrip before, and wanted more for recreational purposes) I turned down 10 dollars a pill that day......

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Paq

darnit, cynthetiq beat me to it

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Glory's Sun

it also depends on what milligram pill you're getting as well. they make 5, 10, 20, 40, 80 and 120 milligram pills. I know people who were hooked on 80's. In fact the rule of thumb is $1 a milligram but they would pay around $120 for an 80.. that's when ya know you're hooked.

omega2K4

Meh, I've had it prescribed to me a couple of times, did absolutely nothing for me. If you want a good painkiller, can't go wrong with good 'ol morphine. If you are just looking to get high, save yourself some money and just skip the expensive, overrated Oxycontin and just get heroin. Its cheaper, and just as effective, if not more.

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Stare At The Sun

Heh, I doubt anyone remembers, but I worked at walgreens, and stood dumbfounded as someone held up the pharmacy for OC w/ a handgun.

People go to all sorts of extremes.

Glory's Sun

heroin is alot dirtier also.. if anything is overrated it's morphine. Just out of curiousity what milligram were you perscribed?

Carno

A waitress at a restaurant I used to work at would fuck people in exchange for Oxy's.

I've also had a couple of buddies who were addicted to them. Boil em up and inject the shit just like heroin.

heccubusiv

Does anyone know how long to takes to get a new medication approved about 15 years, also takes about 1 billion dollars and only 1/20 get approved so 20 billion dollars is wasted for every one medication that loses its patent a few years after being approved. To lower medication costs how bout we extend patents to give drug companies a chance to get their money back so they can make more life saving medications

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