Oxycontin Express

[30ashopper]

This is really sad, but looks like FL is on the way to tracking. Most likely many doctors will find themselves with their licenses to practice revoked. It explains the number of people I have encountered with a pocket full of pills and they are sold at a premium.

I didn't know oxycontin was heroin, however. Dang spooky!

A lot of the over the counter prescription pain killers are opiate based. These drugs can be very addictive because they are carefully designed / purified forms of the original drug.

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.. these are very effective drugs. You just have to be careful.

 

[LuciferSam]

A lot of the over the counter prescription pain killers are opiate based. These drugs can be very addictive because they are carefully designed / purified forms of the original drug.

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.. these are very effective drugs. You just have to be careful.

I'm not sure what you mean by "over the counter prescription", but I think you mean prescription drugs available from your pharmacy. I don't think there are any opiate based drugs you can just buy off the shelf like aspirin. That would not be a good thing. On the other hand, I've had to use these prescription drugs for post op pain relief, severe toothache, and wisdom tooth extraction. All I can say is that they are very effective if used properly. I've never used the big daddy Oxycontin, but I can imagine there are some people who would rightfully trade their severe chronic pain for the possibility of addiction and overdose.

 

[30ashopper]

I'm not sure what you mean by "over the counter prescription", but I think you mean prescription drugs available from your pharmacy. I don't think there are any opiate based drugs you can just buy off the shelf like aspirin. That would not be a good thing. On the other hand, I've had to use these prescription drugs for post op pain relief, severe toothache, and wisdom tooth extraction. All I can say is that they are very effective if used properly. I've never used the big daddy Oxycontin, but I can imagine there are some people who would rightfully trade their severe chronic pain for the possibility of addiction and overdose.

Yeah, sorry, brain fart on "over the counter".

 

[Lynnie]

There is at least one dr. in Destin who dispenses drugs from his office, cash only and he has you coming in once a month. He is called "The Feel Good Doctor." And, I think there is one in Chipley, too.

 

[Matt J]

There is at least one dr. in Destin who dispenses drugs from his office, cash only and he has you coming in once a month. He is called "The Feel Good Doctor." And, I think there is one in Chipley, too.

There's always one in every town. Bay County had one for years that operated an "office" out of a space the size of a broom closet. He had a line consistenly a block long on Friday afternoon.

 

[Bobby J]

I'm not sure what you mean by "over the counter prescription", but I think you mean prescription drugs available from your pharmacy. I don't think there are any opiate based drugs you can just buy off the shelf like aspirin. That would not be a good thing. On the other hand, I've had to use these prescription drugs for post op pain relief, severe toothache, and wisdom tooth extraction. All I can say is that they are very effective if used properly. I've never used the big daddy Oxycontin, but I can imagine there are some people who would rightfully trade their severe chronic pain for the possibility of addiction and overdose.

Oxycontin is a wonderful drug if used properly. The problem is in many cases it is not being used as prescribed. They should really regulate the obvious and put an end to what is going on in S. Florida. I know a young girl sitting in jail locally who was caught up in that mess. You go in and get whatever you want. Big money. The Doc can see 100 patients plus a day at about $150 a whack. The visit takes about 5 minutes. The take for the day is $15,000 give or take. Take that times 5 days a week and you have a get rich recipe. I guess $75,000 a week will pull some retired Docs out of retirement.

 

[LuciferSam]

Oxycontin is a wonderful drug if used properly. The problem is in many cases it is not being used as prescribed. They should really regulate the obvious and put an end to what is going on in S. Florida. I know a young girl sitting in jail locally who was caught up in that mess. You go in and get whatever you want. Big money. The Doc can see 100 patients plus a day at about $150 a whack. The visit takes about 5 minutes. The take for the day is $15,000 give or take. Take that times 5 days a week and you have a get rich recipe. I guess $75,000 a week will pull some retired Docs out of retirement.

I agree, my gut feeling is that very very often it's misused. I wouldn't say more often than not, but I wonder sometimes.

 

[puglet]

You've heard of the Iron Age, the Middle Ages, we live in the Pharmaceutical Age. Poisoning our water and forever changing the human genome. And that's just with the prescribed drugs this country relies on. How do we ever dig ourselves out of this one?

 

[scooterbug44]

I think tracking prescriptions and cracking down on these doctors is a good start.

Some communities are starting programs to properly dispose of unused meds to keep them out of the water supply, but I believe for security reasons they do not accept stuff like Oxycontin.

Many pharmacies accept unused meds for disposal, so check w/ your local pharmacy if you need to get rid of some.

 

[sunspotbaby]

All three clinics are owned by 29-year-old twin brothers Christopher and Jeffrey George. American Pain had been in operation for five weeks prior to the raid.

The 14-month criminal investigation of all three clinics discovered that American Pain had five primary physicians working full-time last year and together administered more than 2 million of the highly addictive oxycodone pills, according to the federal court documents.

Feds Raid Three Alleged Pill Mills in Florida for Illegal Distribution of Prescription Drugs - ABC News