Oxycontin,Pharmacy's,Crime... - Pain Management Message Board

ruko4 · 04-06-2004, 08:57 AM

I am just wondering why Oxycontin is so popular to drug abusers? Last week a drug store was robbed here in Moncton, NewBrunswick Canada it was around closing time and all they wanted was Oxycontin, no Morphine or other Narc's or Benzo's not even money!! Is it because it gives a high similiar to morphine but not so sedating, more of a stimulating high?
I know when I first took a percocet which was years ago I had this wonderful feeling that lasted for hours it was amazing but after that I never had that buzz again. I have been reading stuff about pain med's and stumbled across something called THEBAINE and that this is what makes the oxycodone a more stimulating drug then sedating like morphine. This is getting really bad I read stuff all the time about robberies just for Oxy.

The other day I went to get my prescription filled when the Pharmacist brought me it, she told me they can only give me half of it right now and that I can pick the other half up next week because they are only stocking a certain amount from now on due to all of the crime which is an inconvenience to me.So now I am left wondering if all pharmacy's are doing this, I do know that all of the grocery store pharmacy's in my area do this and that is why I go to a traditional drug store and pay the higher dispensing fee but not anymore now mine does this as well. There is another that just opened it is in the Price Club (Costco) and their dispensing fee is the lowest in town at about half of what the drug stores charge, I wonder if they will be able to dispense my whole rx at once if not I guess that's life, it does make sense I guess if it will make it safer for the employees. I would switch to something else but Oxycontin seems to work the best for me with fewer side effects.

ruko4 · 04-07-2004, 07:38 AM

I also wonder why Hydromorph Contin is not in the news at all when it comes to abuse as it is more powerful drug then Oxycontin? Maybe because it's harder to abuse, I have seen the capsules in my CPS (Canadian drug book) which are filled with tiny little beads and come in strengths up to 32 mg, I think. I don't think this drug is available in the USA is it? Basically it is a time release Dilaudid capsule used for chronic pain. Anyway it doesn't really matter I guess the Oxycontin I use along with the Elavil and Percocet for my chronic pain work great so I should be happy that I get the treatment I am recieving.

Poo2 · 04-09-2004, 12:24 AM

Hello,

Oxycontin is a very serious addicting drug. My Dr. will NOT prescribe this medication anymore. The problem that people are having with it is that they do not take it as prescribed. They are chwing it or crushing it and snorting it, this is giving them ALL the drug at once. VERY VERY DANGEROUS!!! We have had a lot of deaths in our area from accidental overdoses from oxycontin. Not only are there robberies of pharmacies there are also prescriptions being forged for it. DO NOT try this, you will get caught. Dr.s are more careful about prescription pads and there having to be a copy for certain drugs.

feelbad · 04-09-2004, 06:52 AM

It is really so sad that such a great drug has gotten such a bad rap because some really stupid people decided to abuse it.This drug has saved from having to live in absolute hell each day.If I didn't have it, i coudln't function or even open and close my hands with out experiencing major agony.Once certain people figured out that by bypassing the intended delivery system and then overdoseing because they just didn't know the capabilities of this drug.It was media hype city!

The biggest problem and what started this whole mess was that people were just ignorant of how most drugs work and espescially how a LA med works.correct me if i am wrong here shore but, I believe just from the research that I have done, that when you take any drug.It is metabolized by either the kidneys or liver and sometimes both.what happens during this breakdown process results in you really only actually getting about maybe 60-75 percent of the actual drug?The rest is destroyed by the metabolization process.But when you decide to snort drugs espescially a timed release one like oxycontin, you are actually getting way more of the drug than you would during the normal route because the drug IS NOT broken down and is absorbed rather quickly through the mucus membranes in the nose.So when someone who has taken like two percs at a time, thinks they are getting ten mgs of oxycodone they are really getting only a little more than half when taken orally.So they think that if they snort say, a ten mg oxycontin they will be getting the same thing and there fore think that it will be okay,They are in actuality getting the full 100% effects of the drug and some(mostly at the much higher doses)will OD on it as it is just way too much.when you take ANY drug orally, you are NEVER getting the full amount.People think they know what they are doing but if they don't take the time to really understand just how the body works with regard to drugs, they are just asking for trouble.Then the media gets on this stupidity, and the DEAs ears perk up, and then you have good honest pain docs being arrested for just doing what drs are supposed to do,and we the pain patients really suffer as we cannot find drs who are willing to go through all of the crap that is involed in just trying to rx the OC. it is all very sad really.Hopefully once the drug maker redesigns the drug so it will lose its affects if used in any other way, the drs can get back to taking care of us properly again. Marcia

Guitar Lover · 04-11-2004, 08:55 AM

The biggest contributor to the Oxycontin mess is the MEDIA!!

These bunch if idiots posted headlines all over the place and articles explaining exactly how to abuse Oxycontin for the people who didn't know yet causing the issue to explode. I have tried every opiate you could imagine and Oxycodone works the best for me. I was so scared that the government would take it away I didn't know what to do. I think the hysteria has slowed a bit but I blame the media for making the

problem worse that it had to be. Druggies will find a way to abuse enough on their own without a step by step instruction sheet of how to do it. Why would someone who is robbing a pharmacy not take ALL of thr CII drugs and the money. Stupid people.

GL