Some of them are friends with doctors, vets or pharmacists, or doctors themselves.
OXYCONTIN QUESTION (serious)
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Some of them are friends with doctors, vets or pharmacists, or doctors themselves.
Not to mention that because of the cost Oxy is a bad gateway for Heroin. A lot of 'gateway drug' notions are BS, especially when dealing with pot, etc, but in this case it's a real phenomenon...
Getting Oxy isn't hard. It's called drug diversion. Somebody gets a prescription for Oxy and sells it (or the leftovers) for money. Taxpayers foot the bill through medicare.
Most addicts are very resourceful. I never understood how anybody could afford a drug habit, but somehow they all seem to succeed. The need makes the person resourceful.
You need to talk to somebody (possibly his doctor?) about his condition (can't walk, can't drive, etc.). The doctor won't violate his patient privacy, but might reconsider any anti-depressants that may not be effective, and get a drug/alcohol screen done, just to be safe, at his next checkup. You might also want to check if he's actually sticking with his prescription for anti-depressants. He could have stopped taking them, or taking too many of them.
My neighbor started on Oxycontin after surgery. 1 pill became 3 and after a year he was downing (snorting) a dozen a day. When he couldn't get more he switched to Tylenol #3 which he came by cheap and within a short time was taking about 30 a day and ventured to heroin. Luckily he was arrested making a purchase and went to treatment and is now on methadone. Its an ugly situation. A real destoyer of families.
I have a friend on Suboxone, been on it for more than a year now because she keeps relapsing, I think she hooked for good... :-(
depending on the mg of the pills, they can go for anywhere between 10-80 dollars a piece. and they are really easy to get, they are more readilly available then pot. too many doctors prescribing way too much of this SHIT.
What do you mean "taxpayers foot the bill through medicare". This sounds like the bullshit coming out of the ULTRA right wing Republicans in the U.S. Since when do we have a subsidized pharmaceutical program in Canada for the general citizens? We have regressed since Mulroney let the BIG Pharmacy Companies have their monopoly on drugs before a generic product is made, and it is 20 years after the introduction of the drug into the market!! It has kept prices a lot higher than they should be for drugs.
i can't stand people who abuse painkillers oxycontin.... because it gets hard for people WHO ACTUALLY NEED the drug to get it ....
and makes chronic pan sufferers be treated like drug addicts
and makes chronic pan sufferers be treated like drug addicts
What's the matter, would you rather see him suffer? He's old. Let him have his fun.
The stupidest thing is that all pharmacies aren't linked up so a person can doctor shop then pharmacy hop. I knew a woman who did just that. Well, more correctly I ran a nightmare of a woman out of a good friend's life for that. (As a friend, her addiction issues were less important than the fact that she was horrible and ruining my friend's life.) She had benefits, but she only ever put a normal running dose through on them because of her chronic and imaginary pain. Most of the rest came from doctor shopping and pharmacy hopping, and the rest was bought on the street.
I known a fair number of other people who've had 'opiates issues' and it's a nightmare to shake. Unless they're family, or you really do care that much, keep people with 'opiates issues' well away from your otherwise normal life. No, I'm not talking about a person who pops the odd Oxy every now and then (though I won't touch opiates, any derivative of coca, or any 'fun pills' for that matter). Junkies are a royal PITA, and you can't have nice things if you 'hang' with a sufficiently strung out junkie (and I'd include a degenerate drunk more than a pothead under the term 'junkie').
That's 11 grams of acetaminophen a day. It was probably healthy for him to switch to heroin.
I happen to know alot on this subject. My SO is slowly getting weened off of Oxys. At her worst she was getting 100 oxy 80s, 150 oxy 40s, and 200 endocets every 2 weeks, prescribed by a doctor. She was like a zombie. She is getting clean, and has dropped the dosage almost in half.
To the OP, you need to have a conversation with your Dad and tell him you think something is up and that he is not acting normally. If he doesn't confess, follow him on one of his walks to see what he is up to. Tell him how concerned you are. And entertain the thought that he may have a condition for which he is being treated and he and your Mom don't want you to know about. You may want to have the same conversation with your Mom.
Dedicated pill prescribers and shops are far more common in the US where the buck rules to a far greater degree. Particularly with one stop back pain clinics in the deeper South. Regardless, that still doesn't explain why there isn't a central per Provence prescription database, that the RCMP can peek into (with cause and a documentation trail) in the case of border hoppers. This is a problem that is fairly easy to clamp the hell down on. If you drove the price of pills through the roof first time 'opiate curious' types would be confronted with the nasty realities of heroin, as opposed to a medical grade pill. That alone would scare folks out of starting.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way anti-drug, but I am deeply, deeply, anti-addiction and some things are just far more addictive than others (says a smoker).
