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Orac <Orac@mac.com> wrote in news:Orac-87C14C.09525204102003@news4-
ge1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net:


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> 
>> 5. I have read various reports over the past year, that Oxycontin
>> was 1st widely misused by people in the Appalachian states. Is this
>> true? If so, any reasons why?
> 
> It is true. I'm not fully familiar with the reasons why, but part of it 
> is definitely availability. The drug can be stolen from pharmacies. 
> Doctors can write prescriptions for it inappropriately. It's probably 
> cheaper than other drugs. And on and on.
> 

You want the Federal Gov't really doing an investigation with you as a 
target?   Mess around with class III drug prescriptions/theft of class III 
drugs, etc.  It will get you an indictment and a ticket to Club Fed 
quicker than you can even imagine.  You don't ever want the USG to name 
you as a target of an investigation.  Guilty or not, your life will never 
be the same.  I did some expert witness work several years ago and I know 
what really happens and it isn't pretty.  Over 98% of all indictments 
result in a conviction.

The abuse comes in when people make up all kind of stories about pain for 
the express purpose of obtaining class III drugs to get high.  Since there 
is little to quantify pain, a doctor only has what the patient is saying 
to go by.  The med sheets for Oxycontin and the like warn specifically 
against breaking the tablets up, crushing them, etc. as that destroys the 
time release mechanism, but that is exactly what the oxy/ms/-contin 
junkies do.  

The problem isn't the drug, but the user.  

There is also one other fact to consider.  There has never been one case 
where a person who has taken opiods for pain relief, wound up being a 
junkie.  If the user wants to get high, then that is a problem.  

Some people say they are a junkie because they have a physical dependency 
to a drug.  Physical dependency does not a junkie make.  If a pain 
sufferer weans off opiods properly, the side effects of the "withdrawl" 
are minimal to non-existent.

BTW, there is a contract that you sign wqhen you see a doc for opiods that 
states that you are looking for pain relief and not a fix; that you are 
looking for pain relief and not a high.  There are other things that you 
agree to as well, such as proper disposal of excess drugs. So you see, the 
contin abuser has to lie several times to be able to get the drugs they 
seek.  Truth be known, it is the euphoria they seek.  That "Hero" feeling.  
Hero is the root word for Heroin, BTW.


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