oxycontin

Heroin has won new converts among American youth who used to take oxycontin - effectively a gateway opiod.

Trip route should have been from Oxycontin addiction to treatment, not with a detour into illegally obtained needle drugs.

OxyContin wasn't changed to reduce high, it was just made harder to crush, to make it harder to IV.

OxyContin alone does around $3BN of sales a year, in addition to other opiates and generics.

Rush Limbaugh famously abused oxycontin and that's likely why he had to get cochlear implants.

With an branded pill like an Oxycontin 20mg, you know what you're getting.

None of us grew up in a great environment, so when his friends suggested Oxycontin it wasn't abnormal or even strange to do it.

Something like Oxycontin is harder on the body due to the acetaminophen.

It's quite telling that the heroine chose to sell her oxycontin and buy heroin instead of telling her doc she's hooked and suffering withdrawal.

Heroin is just cheaper and easier to get than OxyContin.

He appreciates the THC because it's reduced his dependency a little on the methadone and oxycontin, which were beginning to do severe damage to his memory.

It started with prescribed Oxycontin and progressed from there.

But the article states it as "ten times stronger than OxyContin", which is a nonsensical fabrication.

The last "classic" Oxycontin I remember hearing about went for $160 a pill.

From the article: > "the victims — mostly white, well-off and often young" > "A result has been a rising sea level of prescription painkillers that continues today, of opioids such as Percocet, Vicodin and OxyContin.

How do you feel about the way current members of the military and veterans are treated w/r/t painkillers like Oxycontin?

Oxycontin is massively prescribed, and not all of it is going to highly-visible junkies.

Overdosing is dangerous for many drugs - more people end up in the hospital from misuse of Tylenol and ibuprofen than from, say, Oxycontin.