Comments on: OxyContin and the Opium Epidemic of the 21st Century http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html Your one-stop-shop for information on recalled consumer products, pharmaceutical drugs alerts, health supplements recalls, recalled vehicles, automotive parts, boats and more. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:36:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: John Guarisco http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-6428 John Guarisco Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:53:10 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-6428 I couldn't agree with you more. This is an epidemic beyond any thing one could imagine. I can't talk with 20 families without hearing the sad story of prescription addiction. The pharm companies are heartless. I believe there is a place for pain killers, but narcotic patients should be required to register with picture id, and social security so they can not doctor shop. It is a simple solution, but the big companies lobby against it. They will lose billions if the street sales are cut off. It is sad. I couldn’t agree with you more. This is an epidemic beyond any thing one could imagine. I can’t talk with 20 families without hearing the sad story of prescription addiction. The pharm companies are heartless. I believe there is a place for pain killers, but narcotic patients should be required to register with picture id, and social security so they can not doctor shop. It is a simple solution, but the big companies lobby against it. They will lose billions if the street sales are cut off. It is sad.

]]> By: E. Sizemore http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-5816 E. Sizemore Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:27:17 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-5816 Thank you for a great response Robert C. I'm looking for someone to write an opposing viewpoint to Mr. Golbom's editorials. Feel free to contact me in regard to this if you are interested. This post is an editorial written by a guest writer who is concerned about "abuse" of these drugs. Note the word "abuse" and not "use". I hope that I never have to know the pain you are going through. And I hope it gets better for you. Sincerely, Everett Thank you for a great response Robert C. I’m looking for someone to write an opposing viewpoint to Mr. Golbom’s editorials. Feel free to contact me in regard to this if you are interested.

This post is an editorial written by a guest writer who is concerned about “abuse” of these drugs. Note the word “abuse” and not “use”.

I hope that I never have to know the pain you are going through. And I hope it gets better for you.

Sincerely,

Everett

]]> By: Robert C http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-5812 Robert C Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:00:28 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-5812 I'm now 47yrs old and have been taking strong pain meds for close to 10yrs. I always worked very hard, always on time and received various awards for this. One day March 30, 1990 at 5pm I will never forget the time and date. I suffered an injury that ruined my life, I just didn't know how bad it was ruined at the time. While working overtime because peoples lights were out I fell 40ft, hit a stop sign with my left arm before slamming into the concrete and shattering a vertebrae along with a huge number of other injuries, especially my spinal cord and other back injuries. I had fallen off a power pole when the wood broke under my gaff. I was immediately paralyzed from the waist down. I wanted to get up! I always worked out and usually ran 3 to 4 miles after lifting weights for a couple of hours at least 3 times a week. The surgeon didn't think I would ever walk again and a good chance I would die. I was paralyzed from the waist down. I had extensive and multiple surgeries to make repairs. I refused pain medication while in the hospital and only took Tylenol #3 sparingly after I went home after close to 2 months in the hospital. I knew the stigma some people have about pain medication, they look down on them so I refused to take any. I worked hard in physical rehab. They wanted me to learn how to deal with being disabled! I refused and pushed them because I was going to walk again if possible. I did and was able to climb power poles again. I continued to just work hard, I ignored pain! I got back to working about 25hrs of overtime every week. Then as the days, weeks and months went by I noticed my legs were getting weak and I was hurting more. I went to the doctor, he did more x-rays. After seeing him a few more times he said more surgery wouldn't help, he sent me to a pain mgmt doctor. He increased my meds a little and it helped. After a while the pain was worse, he gave me more. I changed jobs because the pain was worse and my legs were weaker. I needed to cross a street at work, I fell flat on my face due to pain and weakness. The pain got worse and I was having a hard time walking. He gave me stronger pain meds so I could walk. It got worse, I had more surgery, I could no longer work but the pain is worse and I now have a very hard time walking from one room to another. Guess what? The pain is still getting worse! I'm not saying medication is the answer. My doctor doesn't say this either. Pain medication has allowed me quite a few years where I still felt I could do things a normal person does. Believe me, when you are young, walk with a walker, crutches or on a really good day just a cane. You aren't treated normal. So why don't you people that think a broken leg or a severe sprain is bad pain get off your high horse and quit putting us down and work as hard to come up with something better? I HATE taking pain medication, if I don't I can only lay in pain 24/7. Give me a choice that works! I loved playing sports, lifting weights etc. I loved how the physical exertion felt. I can't do it anymore, currently I have severe pain over most of my body but the worst is my lower left back, hip and leg. If I raise my leg the pain is so severe it knocks me to the ground. My lower mid back has pain as if someone pounded me with a hammer. I'm not saying the meds are the answer, they aren't. But, that's my only option to reduce the pain. I talk to my doctor about how if I was an animal they would put me down. He said they don't do that to humans because we're worth more. Sure if funny how he's one of the few that really cares while others only want to say how people in pain should just deal with it and you have the nerve to call the doctors dealers! The medication kills people??!! WHAAAAT??!!! If it wasn't for the medication believe me the suicide rate would be much higher. But then you goody two shoes would be able to say "Look at the drugs we took away, aren't we great!" . I guess you think it's okay if the person kills themselves for any reason other than pain medication is just fine and you can sleep at night. It's okay since the person that killed themselves because they could no longer deal with the pain wasn't related to you. With the way you think that would likely be okay also. Ever wonder why elderly people want the ability to die with dignity? They are usually in excruciating pain. But then again, you that don't deal with pain surely know what's best for all of us after all, harump we only have pain! We thousands of good people are good as the rest of you, only we have extreme pain and want our pain to be tolerable. Surely there must be something you could compare. Guess what? There's not.... we pain people were all as normal as you at one time, let's see what YOU do if you ever have this pain. You will cry for compassion also. I’m now 47yrs old and have been taking strong pain meds for close to 10yrs. I always worked very hard, always on time and received various awards for this. One day March 30, 1990 at 5pm I will never forget the time and date. I suffered an injury that ruined my life, I just didn’t know how bad it was ruined at the time. While working overtime because peoples lights were out I fell 40ft, hit a stop sign with my left arm before slamming into the concrete and shattering a vertebrae along with a huge number of other injuries, especially my spinal cord and other back injuries. I had fallen off a power pole when the wood broke under my gaff. I was immediately paralyzed from the waist down. I wanted to get up! I always worked out and usually ran 3 to 4 miles after lifting weights for a couple of hours at least 3 times a week. The surgeon didn’t think I would ever walk again and a good chance I would die. I was paralyzed from the waist down. I had extensive and multiple surgeries to make repairs. I refused pain medication while in the hospital and only took Tylenol #3 sparingly after I went home after close to 2 months in the hospital. I knew the stigma some people have about pain medication, they look down on them so I refused to take any. I worked hard in physical rehab. They wanted me to learn how to deal with being disabled! I refused and pushed them because I was going to walk again if possible. I did and was able to climb power poles again. I continued to just work hard, I ignored pain! I got back to working about 25hrs of overtime every week. Then as the days, weeks and months went by I noticed my legs were getting weak and I was hurting more. I went to the doctor, he did more x-rays. After seeing him a few more times he said more surgery wouldn’t help, he sent me to a pain mgmt doctor. He increased my meds a little and it helped. After a while the pain was worse, he gave me more. I changed jobs because the pain was worse and my legs were weaker. I needed to cross a street at work, I fell flat on my face due to pain and weakness. The pain got worse and I was having a hard time walking. He gave me stronger pain meds so I could walk. It got worse, I had more surgery, I could no longer work but the pain is worse and I now have a very hard time walking from one room to another. Guess what? The pain is still getting worse! I’m not saying medication is the answer. My doctor doesn’t say this either. Pain medication has allowed me quite a few years where I still felt I could do things a normal person does. Believe me, when you are young, walk with a walker, crutches or on a really good day just a cane. You aren’t treated normal. So why don’t you people that think a broken leg or a severe sprain is bad pain get off your high horse and quit putting us down and work as hard to come up with something better? I HATE taking pain medication, if I don’t I can only lay in pain 24/7. Give me a choice that works! I loved playing sports, lifting weights etc. I loved how the physical exertion felt. I can’t do it anymore, currently I have severe pain over most of my body but the worst is my lower left back, hip and leg. If I raise my leg the pain is so severe it knocks me to the ground. My lower mid back has pain as if someone pounded me with a hammer. I’m not saying the meds are the answer, they aren’t. But, that’s my only option to reduce the pain. I talk to my doctor about how if I was an animal they would put me down. He said they don’t do that to humans because we’re worth more. Sure if funny how he’s one of the few that really cares while others only want to say how people in pain should just deal with it and you have the nerve to call the doctors dealers! The medication kills people??!! WHAAAAT??!!! If it wasn’t for the medication believe me the suicide rate would be much higher. But then you goody two shoes would be able to say “Look at the drugs we took away, aren’t we great!” . I guess you think it’s okay if the person kills themselves for any reason other than pain medication is just fine and you can sleep at night. It’s okay since the person that killed themselves because they could no longer deal with the pain wasn’t related to you. With the way you think that would likely be okay also. Ever wonder why elderly people want the ability to die with dignity? They are usually in excruciating pain. But then again, you that don’t deal with pain surely know what’s best for all of us after all, harump we only have pain! We thousands of good people are good as the rest of you, only we have extreme pain and want our pain to be tolerable. Surely there must be something you could compare. Guess what? There’s not…. we pain people were all as normal as you at one time, let’s see what YOU do if you ever have this pain. You will cry for compassion also.

]]> By: bob http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-5543 bob Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:33:15 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-5543 Hey, oxy is great stuff. If yall dont want yours Id be glad to take those little green buddies off your hands. Hey, oxy is great stuff. If yall dont want yours Id be glad to take those little green buddies off your hands.

]]> By: John 316 http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-5085 John 316 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:18:06 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-5085 You people put way way way too much value to human life... Life sucks. The pain of everyday life in middle to lower classes is ludicrously high.. You religious nuts are taught that you're supposed to "live life to the fullest", going about the earth, destructing it, breeding like rabbits, contributing to overpopulation... You wanna live life til your 120 in horrible pain? Go for it. QUALITY of life is more important that quantity. You people put way way way too much value to human life… Life sucks. The pain of everyday life in middle to lower classes is ludicrously high.. You religious nuts are taught that you’re supposed to “live life to the fullest”, going about the earth, destructing it, breeding like rabbits, contributing to overpopulation…

You wanna live life til your 120 in horrible pain? Go for it.

QUALITY of life is more important that quantity.

]]> By: Scott Finn http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-5008 Scott Finn Wed, 27 May 2009 16:34:57 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-5008 May 26, 2009 · The epidemic of overdose deaths from prescription painkillers started in Appalachia, spread from coast to coast, and finally devastated one California family who decided to do something about it... http://www.wvpubcast.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=9771 May 26, 2009 · The epidemic of overdose deaths from prescription painkillers started in Appalachia, spread from coast to coast, and finally devastated one California family who decided to do something about it…

http://www.wvpubcast.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=9771

]]> By: kimberly http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4664 kimberly Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:28:25 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4664 I take oxycodone for scoliosis,6 slipped discs,degenerative disc disease,severe arthritis,2 bulging discs with spinal cord impengement,siatica,severe spasms in my back, severe spondiyolitisis to name a few. I am only 48 years old. My degree is in horticulture and I have been at my job for 10 years. It is how I support my family , make insurance available and pay my mortgage. SSI will not provide this for my family. A desk job is out of the question as it is more painful to sit even for one hour.I would much rather not have to treat my pain this way as I debated taking it for some time,trying every oter avenue first. 17 weeks of painful therapy, constant trigger point injections,too many epidurals,some of it worked for a short time and your only allowed so much cortisone so I ask you what is your suggestion go on ssi, loose my home, give up everything I have worked for my entire life. and my family do without everything? I tried celebrex,and everything over the counter pain releavers,patches and started with the lowest form of perscription pain releaver avail nothing worked until this. I am open for suggestions. Let's hear it. Thanks. treat my pain. I might add this oxycodone only lessens the pain enough to keep working. I am smart enough to know if one doesn't completely do it 2 won't either so I wait my 4 hours. I take oxycodone for scoliosis,6 slipped discs,degenerative disc disease,severe arthritis,2 bulging discs with spinal cord impengement,siatica,severe spasms in my back, severe spondiyolitisis to name a few. I am only 48 years old. My degree is in horticulture and I have been at my job for 10 years. It is how I support my family , make insurance available and pay my mortgage. SSI will not provide this for my family. A desk job is out of the question as it is more painful to sit even for one hour.I would much rather not have to treat my pain this way as I debated taking it for some time,trying every oter avenue first. 17 weeks of painful therapy, constant trigger point injections,too many epidurals,some of it worked for a short time and your only allowed so much cortisone so I ask you what is your suggestion go on ssi, loose my home, give up everything I have worked for my entire life. and my family do without everything? I tried celebrex,and everything over the counter pain releavers,patches and started with the lowest form of perscription pain releaver avail nothing worked until this. I am open for suggestions. Let’s hear it. Thanks. treat my pain. I might add this oxycodone only lessens the pain enough to keep working. I am smart enough to know if one doesn’t completely do it 2 won’t either so I wait my 4 hours.

]]> By: Chris http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4485 Chris Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:28:59 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4485 Since the Oxycodone recall, and completely stopping the pills: 1) I did not have withdrawal symptoms (sweats); 2) I absolutely had the most excruciating pain come back, that can just dissolve your mind, besides body. The drugs didn't dissolve my mind, but the pain sure did. No one could live with that amount of crippling pain. Chronic pain physically affects the body. My doctor replaced my prescription starting me on Oxycontin: (because my mail-in company won't cover a different brand??- who knows; the local pharmacist is also on back order - who knows why?). I'm not really thrilled with this drug, because I get additional headaches - maybe I'm adjusting to it. I know they say it is the same, we will see. I do see it is "longer term", but it still quits early, as did the previous medicine, plus I get a headache, but its better than nothing. I've prayed for this 30-year cross of pain to be taken away from me. I am still young, I don't want to live as someone in their 80's, when I'm not. I don't want my husband leaving me because of all my physical problems. He already takes up most of the slack of shopping, etc. God Bless Him! The "drug abuser" excusers are full of nonsense. An abuser will abuse, unless they control themselves. If you can't control it - put it in GOD's hands. That was the ONLY way I stopped smoking. I knew I couldn't do it on my own. I still couldn't - HE does it for me. It's 8.5 years, I still could be a weakling and go back, when I think of it - I immediately turn it over to God. If you've tried everything else, try that, because if there is an issue in your life you can't control, if it's meant to be helped, maybe He can help. And yes, I have turned my pain over to God. I have people and doctors that have faith in me, and I am trying. Maybe one day I will have that blessing too. My husband always says I should ask ANYONE if they'd want to walk a mile in my shoes. I haven't had ONE taker on that. Until you feel the unrelenting horrific pain, you can't imagine what you are talking about, nor would you want to. The pain people that are taking meds for a "buzz" - it's because of you, that people like me might have a problem in the future. Grow up. If I am able to move, to go, to...whatever, I am so grateful. I am grateful to be alive, I might be in pain, but I am alive, and trying to have a life. Only when the pain slaps me down am I devastated. But even with the pain, if I can keep "sort of functioning in a life" - aren't I so lucky. You need an attitude adjustment. Maybe if the pain was real bad again - the buzz wouldn't be so important. I had cellulitis 2 years ago. Absolutely excruciating. Couldn't move, antibiotics and pain pills doubled. Then onto walker, leg swelled. Still have residue of muscle's dissolving. Don't know if this is what Jim's osteomylitis was? Sounds similar. Took protein powder, EXERCISE! Try, keep trying, have faith, give it time. Everytime I see a doctor the say "Exercise". Going to P/T. Don't give up. ASAP went back to original dosage of medicine, and kept trying other modalities to help. As I review my records, I guess I been taking a pain med for about 11 years, at first they made me sick and nauseous, I hated them. (That was on 1 pill). I have had to increase slightly, (6 (5 mg) of oxycodone, not 3 (10 mg) Oxycontin, but if I can cut back I'd love to. Went for 1 of 3 epidurals today, not like years ago where I had no anesthesia, and they scraped your spine to find whereever they had to find. These shots won't cover my "original" serious pain - they hopefully will help some other pains. Maybe someday the new technology will keep improving and let me have a life. I hope the pain meds, let me get to the point where technology catches up. Years ago the doc said I am the "test" - basically the lab test, that will help future generations. Maybe I'll actually live long enough to get relief. Oh joy - to save my liver! Another reason to stay at the lowest dose. I have been told they don't know anyone on it as long as I have been, but I am responsible and DO NOT ABUSE! Except for a few wacky, and winey posts, I am reading the posts from the people that have had TRUE pain, and see the seriousness of the affect on their lives, and the lives of those that they love. The ones using drugs as an excuse or a "controlling" factor to use over others is sad. This is not a joke, the pain people speaking here are in turmoil, and trying to live a life. If someone needs to change doctors to a doctor that actually listens to them, they need to find someone who will help them - whether increase, maintain, or de-tox. (You should be able to back up your physical ailment with medical proof of course.) When there are sites up with people discussing brands, crushing and shooting - give me a break - no wonder people are trying to stop the abusers. I've taken medication many years and don't know this info. When I reach a tolerable level, I don't want to increase, and haven't. People - take personal responsibility. If you can do something - do it. If you can't, or DON'T WANT to- don't blame it on a pill. The second I am physically able to go - I'm moving. Maybe that's why my husband has stayed with me 34 years. He sees that I try very VERY hard to have a life. And have tried to maintain an upbeat attitude, and that is very difficult, when besides pain, I have other physical ailments that make life and living difficult. To all the pain people - please don't give up -keep looking for help. Since the Oxycodone recall, and completely stopping the pills: 1) I did not have withdrawal symptoms (sweats); 2) I absolutely had the most excruciating pain come back, that can just dissolve your mind, besides body. The drugs didn’t dissolve my mind, but the pain sure did. No one could live with that amount of crippling pain. Chronic pain physically affects the body.
My doctor replaced my prescription starting me on Oxycontin: (because my mail-in company won’t cover a different brand??- who knows; the local pharmacist is also on back order – who knows why?). I’m not really thrilled with this drug, because I get additional headaches – maybe I’m adjusting to it. I know they say it is the same, we will see. I do see it is “longer term”, but it still quits early, as did the previous medicine, plus I get a headache, but its better than nothing.
I’ve prayed for this 30-year cross of pain to be taken away from me. I am still young, I don’t want to live as someone in their 80’s, when I’m not. I don’t want my husband leaving me because of all my physical problems. He already takes up most of the slack of shopping, etc. God Bless Him!
The “drug abuser” excusers are full of nonsense. An abuser will abuse, unless they control themselves. If you can’t control it – put it in GOD’s hands. That was the ONLY way I stopped smoking. I knew I couldn’t do it on my own. I still couldn’t – HE does it for me. It’s 8.5 years, I still could be a weakling and go back, when I think of it – I immediately turn it over to God. If you’ve tried everything else, try that, because if there is an issue in your life you can’t control, if it’s meant to be helped, maybe He can help.
And yes, I have turned my pain over to God. I have people and doctors that have faith in me, and I am trying. Maybe one day I will have that blessing too.
My husband always says I should ask ANYONE if they’d want to walk a mile in my shoes. I haven’t had ONE taker on that. Until you feel the unrelenting horrific pain, you can’t imagine what you are talking about, nor would you want to.
The pain people that are taking meds for a “buzz” – it’s because of you, that people like me might have a problem in the future. Grow up. If I am able to move, to go, to…whatever, I am so grateful. I am grateful to be alive, I might be in pain, but I am alive, and trying to have a life. Only when the pain slaps me down am I devastated. But even with the pain, if I can keep “sort of functioning in a life” – aren’t I so lucky. You need an attitude adjustment. Maybe if the pain was real bad again – the buzz wouldn’t be so important.
I had cellulitis 2 years ago. Absolutely excruciating. Couldn’t move, antibiotics and pain pills doubled. Then onto walker, leg swelled. Still have residue of muscle’s dissolving. Don’t know if this is what Jim’s osteomylitis was? Sounds similar. Took protein powder, EXERCISE! Try, keep trying, have faith, give it time. Everytime I see a doctor the say “Exercise”. Going to P/T. Don’t give up. ASAP went back to original dosage of medicine, and kept trying other modalities to help.
As I review my records, I guess I been taking a pain med for about 11 years, at first they made me sick and nauseous, I hated them. (That was on 1 pill). I have had to increase slightly, (6 (5 mg) of oxycodone, not 3 (10 mg) Oxycontin, but if I can cut back I’d love to.
Went for 1 of 3 epidurals today, not like years ago where I had no anesthesia, and they scraped your spine to find whereever they had to find. These shots won’t cover my “original” serious pain – they hopefully will help some other pains. Maybe someday the new technology will keep improving and let me have a life. I hope the pain meds, let me get to the point where technology catches up.
Years ago the doc said I am the “test” – basically the lab test, that will help future generations. Maybe I’ll actually live long enough to get relief. Oh joy – to save my liver! Another reason to stay at the lowest dose. I have been told they don’t know anyone on it as long as I have been, but I am responsible and DO NOT ABUSE!
Except for a few wacky, and winey posts, I am reading the posts from the people that have had TRUE pain, and see the seriousness of the affect on their lives, and the lives of those that they love.
The ones using drugs as an excuse or a “controlling” factor to use over others is sad.
This is not a joke, the pain people speaking here are in turmoil, and trying to live a life.
If someone needs to change doctors to a doctor that actually listens to them, they need to find someone who will help them – whether increase, maintain, or de-tox. (You should be able to back up your physical ailment with medical proof of course.)
When there are sites up with people discussing brands, crushing and shooting – give me a break – no wonder people are trying to stop the abusers. I’ve taken medication many years and don’t know this info. When I reach a tolerable level, I don’t want to increase, and haven’t.
People – take personal responsibility. If you can do something – do it. If you can’t, or DON’T WANT to- don’t blame it on a pill. The second I am physically able to go – I’m moving. Maybe that’s why my husband has stayed with me 34 years. He sees that I try very VERY hard to have a life. And have tried to maintain an upbeat attitude, and that is very difficult, when besides pain, I have other physical ailments that make life and living difficult.
To all the pain people – please don’t give up -keep looking for help.

]]> By: Jim http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4473 Jim Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:20:01 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4473 Oxycontin saved my live. I came down with a very bad case of osteomylytis in my left leg. I spendttwo weeks in the hospital and even with high doses of dilada they could not get the pain under control. The pain was absolutely horrible. As time went by, the pain subsided slighlty and I was given 180mg per day (60mg every 8 hours) of Oxycontin and 50mg of Oxycodone for breakthrough pain. I was able to go home! Without these two medications, I do not think I would have been able to live at home, I would have ended up in a nursing home. Fortunately my wife was there to take help of me. I admit I could not have done this on my own. Over time the pain began to subside as we got the infection under control. One day I noticed that I was taking Oxycodone for pleasure, not for breakthrough pain and I made the decision that I needed to cut back. You have take responsibility for what you are doing. NO one else can do it for you. So I asked my doctor how to taper back and was told to do it at a 20mg decrease every 3 days. I followed the instructions meticulously and did not have any significant problems. When I got down to 60mg per day I was switched to 10mg tablets and continued from there. It took a little over a month but I am now drug free with no cravings. I still have some residual pain that will have to be dealt with, but that can wait. My point is, there is a purpose for this medication and it can be very beneficial to those in great pain. Those of you who have not experienced such pain and condemn oxycontin for pain control are fools. Sure, Oxycontin can be abused, but for some it is a life saver. I have no respect for those who would ban the medicine outright as until they have walked in a pain suffer shoes, they really having nothing to contribute to the discussion. End abuse, but don't ban an effective pain management medicine. Oxycontin saved my live. I came down with a very bad case of osteomylytis in my left leg. I spendttwo weeks in the hospital and even with high doses of dilada they could not get the pain under control. The pain was absolutely horrible. As time went by, the pain subsided slighlty and I was given 180mg per day (60mg every 8 hours) of Oxycontin and 50mg of Oxycodone for breakthrough pain. I was able to go home!

Without these two medications, I do not think I would have been able to live at home, I would have ended up in a nursing home. Fortunately my wife was there to take help of me. I admit I could not have done this on my own.

Over time the pain began to subside as we got the infection under control. One day I noticed that I was taking Oxycodone for pleasure, not for breakthrough pain and I made the decision that I needed to cut back. You have take responsibility for what you are doing. NO one else can do it for you.

So I asked my doctor how to taper back and was told to do it at a 20mg decrease every 3 days. I followed the instructions meticulously and did not have any significant problems. When I got down to 60mg per day I was switched to 10mg tablets and continued from there. It took a little over a month but I am now drug free with no cravings. I still have some residual pain that will have to be dealt with, but that can wait.

My point is, there is a purpose for this medication and it can be very beneficial to those in great pain. Those of you who have not experienced such pain and condemn oxycontin for pain control are fools. Sure, Oxycontin can be abused, but for some it is a life saver. I have no respect for those who would ban the medicine outright as until they have walked in a pain suffer shoes, they really having nothing to contribute to the discussion. End abuse, but don’t ban an effective pain management medicine.

]]> By: Twist aka Pete Heron http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4381 Twist aka Pete Heron Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:37:23 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4381 Larry, your words mystify me. Are you saying that some people don't live in excrutiating pain every single day? Yes, years ago I treated my pain meds like a lark. I loved the feeling and always ran out, weeks before I should have. I was an abuser. But now I am in a category that absolutely needs heavy narcotics. Larry, what is troubling me is the large amount of doctors who will prescribe the barest amount of pain med; even when years go by they will not raise it; often, if the patient upsets them, the doctor will abruptly cut them off. This is sadistic, but patients have no recourse. One reason is people like I used to be, the abusers jacking their pain scale upwards. We make it hard for others. But there is a group of patients...like me now...that absolutely needs pain relief at huge doses. I could recommend pain management, but most will not treat you unless you are in a bonafide state like terminal cancer, maybe, or your burned everywhere. They will turn you away. Back to your doctor who will not write more than twenty mgs a day. I think Randy has it right: many people not in pain embrace this smug attitude and look down on others as junkies. Larry, I hope you don't get squashed in a car accident, or burned over your entire body, or your limbs torn off, but until that happens I think you will always maintain your narrowminded view. While I respect your right to it I certainly think it is totally wrong and harmful. Larry, your words mystify me. Are you saying that some people don’t live in excrutiating pain every single day?

Yes, years ago I treated my pain meds like a lark. I loved the feeling and always ran out, weeks before I should have. I was an abuser.

But now I am in a category that absolutely needs heavy narcotics.

Larry, what is troubling me is the large amount of doctors who will prescribe the barest amount of pain med; even when years go by they will not raise it; often, if the patient upsets them, the doctor will abruptly cut them off.

This is sadistic, but patients have no recourse. One reason is people like I used to be, the abusers jacking their pain scale upwards. We make it hard for others. But there is a group of patients…like me now…that absolutely needs pain relief at huge doses.

I could recommend pain management, but most will not treat you unless you are in a bonafide state like terminal cancer, maybe, or your burned everywhere. They will turn you away. Back to your doctor who will not write more than twenty mgs a day.

I think Randy has it right: many people not in pain embrace this smug attitude and look down on others as junkies. Larry, I hope you don’t get squashed in a car accident, or burned over your entire body, or your limbs torn off, but until that happens I think you will always maintain your narrowminded view. While I respect your right to it I certainly think it is totally wrong and harmful.

]]> By: Twist http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4380 Twist Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:26:07 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4380 Years ago when I first got oral cancer I loved to take oxycodone tabs. I would take three and be buzzed half a day, then take three more. Finally, I got to a point where I took fifteen a day, out of a script of eighty; needless to say I went through withdrawal every month until my next fill. About two years ago I noticed that even if I took fifty...yes, fifty...I got no buzz or pain relief. Now I could take a hundred...five hundred mgs...and nothing. Oxycodone does not affect me. Here's the kicker: my oral cancer has advanced to the point where I have six months or less to live. The tumor has dramatically grown in my jaw and tongue. For two months it has gradually pulled my lower face leftwards and pushed me tongue upwards like Jack's beanstalk. At times I am in excrutiating pain. I take ninety mgs of methadone three times daily, and hospice has me on a diluadid pump at a flow of six mgs and bolus of six mgs every six minutes. There is no more euphoria or real pain relief...unless I want to be totally zonked. I wonder, did methadone destroy the buzz of oxycodone? and fentynal? and liquid morphine? and diluadid pills? I lost my buzz when I began methadone for pain. Truthfully, I miss feeling high. I really do. Years ago when I first got oral cancer I loved to take oxycodone tabs. I would take three and be buzzed half a day, then take three more. Finally, I got to a point where I took fifteen a day, out of a script of eighty; needless to say I went through withdrawal every month until my next fill.
About two years ago I noticed that even if I took fifty…yes, fifty…I got no buzz or pain relief. Now I could take a hundred…five hundred mgs…and nothing. Oxycodone does not affect me.
Here’s the kicker: my oral cancer has advanced to the point where I have six months or less to live. The tumor has dramatically grown in my jaw and tongue. For two months it has gradually pulled my lower face leftwards and pushed me tongue upwards like Jack’s beanstalk. At times I am in excrutiating pain.
I take ninety mgs of methadone three times daily, and hospice has me on a diluadid pump at a flow of six mgs and bolus of six mgs every six minutes.
There is no more euphoria or real pain relief…unless I want to be totally zonked.
I wonder, did methadone destroy the buzz of oxycodone? and fentynal? and liquid morphine? and diluadid pills? I lost my buzz when I began methadone for pain. Truthfully, I miss feeling high. I really do.

]]> By: Vincent Richardson http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4369 Vincent Richardson Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:58:52 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4369 One shouldn't comment on functional addicts if they themselves have never been through pain management treatment. When your ignorance grabs hold and you want to make a comment about "getting by" and "living in denial" stop and think about the people who have no other choice and need to be in working condition to support families, or themselves. Take someone with crippling pain that struggles to be happy and not miserable in life look them in the eye and call them weak.... I guess my general point is everyone is different and some do not need it but take it and some really need it. So be kind and mind your own F***ing business. One shouldn’t comment on functional addicts if they themselves have never been through pain management treatment. When your ignorance grabs hold and you want to make a comment about “getting by” and “living in denial” stop and think about the people who have no other choice and need to be in working condition to support families, or themselves. Take someone with crippling pain that struggles to be happy and not miserable in life look them in the eye and call them weak…. I guess my general point is everyone is different and some do not need it but take it and some really need it. So be kind and mind your own F***ing business.

]]> By: Jennifer Barry http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4310 Jennifer Barry Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:08:28 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4310 For all of you "drug addicts" that is what you all are if you condone this medications. Larry I love you, and all the others who are living in REALITY. I have lost friends and family to this drug and these people were NOT walking zombies. They were addicts who ONE night TOOK TOO MUCH. These pain Dr's sit behind a desk and write scripts, bill $150 and then sell the pills. People are over medicated and not properly medicated. There needs to be regulations regarding this epidemic and I plan to personally spend my life lobbying for this !!! My daughter's father has left her life - the most adorable, sweetest, smartest, precious little life for these drugs and if you think that if he was not addicted to this pills he would still do this you are wrong!!! Suck it Buttercup and get real with your lives. Your organs are compromised and polluted!! Eventually death will come to you and if you are "functioning addict" then you are a miserable person taking enough to "get by" but eventually you will succumb. You are not living and masking an issue with in your self. There are PLENTY of people walking around with chronic pain that find alternative methods....Stop living in denial!!!!!!!!!!!! For all of you “drug addicts” that is what you all are if you condone this medications. Larry I love you, and all the others who are living in REALITY. I have lost friends and family to this drug and these people were NOT walking zombies. They were addicts who ONE night TOOK TOO MUCH. These pain Dr’s sit behind a desk and write scripts, bill $150 and then sell the pills. People are over medicated and not properly medicated. There needs to be regulations regarding this epidemic and I plan to personally spend my life lobbying for this !!!
My daughter’s father has left her life – the most adorable, sweetest, smartest, precious little life for these drugs and if you think that if he was not addicted to this pills he would still do this you are wrong!!! Suck it Buttercup and get real with your lives. Your organs are compromised and polluted!! Eventually death will come to you and if you are “functioning addict” then you are a miserable person taking enough to “get by” but eventually you will succumb. You are not living and masking an issue with in your self. There are PLENTY of people walking around with chronic pain that find alternative methods….Stop living in denial!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Hannibal Lecter http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4282 Hannibal Lecter Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:50:32 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4282 To all the people that have anything negative to say about the Opium plant or Oxycontin, the Bible should be re-written to stone YOU to death. The son of a bitches only allow working stiffs to run to Dunkin Fuckin Donuts or Tim Horton's to get a caffeine jolt to deal with all the horrible crap we deal with on a day to day basis. And for what? To suffer in the end from cancer anyway? Heroin is the CURE for depression, cancer, life being absolutely horrendous, stock markets crashing... The only thing that keeps you people going is your credit cards. It gives you a feeling that you are actually winning the rat race. That quote from that Chinese guy came AFTER the Industrial Revolution. Now, we are at a point where every single company seemingly on the planet is filing for bankruptcy!! In other words, history is repeating itself. The government allows us stiffs alcohol, caffeine and that's basically it. It's a commie, police state. The Poppy is the most important plant in the world - and one of the most beautiful. Give a woman a $75 bouquet of roses and she creams her pants. Give her a poppy plant and she has no idea how important it is. People are on this kick to legalize marijuana. Marijuana should be legalized, but so should the poppy. Alcohol makes people violent. Heroin calms people down so that they love everyone; even their own enemies. Why did 400,000 troops get addicted to morphine? Hmmm, there's gotta be a reason right? But if we were to call THEM junkies and the scum of the earth, we'd be contradicting ourselves now wouldn't we? The people that "protected our freedom!!!" LOL. Ever wonder why exactly hundreds of thousands of troops are buried in FLANDERS FIELDS? It's because if they had the choice, they would stick with the poppy over anything life has to offer. You Phd's, doctor's, pharmacists know jack shit about addiction. You think that people should "recover." Some people just aren't the type for marriage and family. People have to start realizing that. The television shows us pictures of how our lives are supposed to be. Babies, fast food, mini-vans, pink houses with 35 year mortgages, marriage etc. It's all bullshit. There is NOTHING on this planet better than HEROIN. Love is a joke, marriage is a joke and even most families are broken nowadays. It's all about MONEY. But the economy is all collapsing. People in the West are being forced to work for pennies and that's not going to go over well when we are all used to making outstanding wages. Rents are outrageous and there is no reason to pay $1000 per month on a god damn APARTMENT in some city of 100,000,000,000 sheople driving around in a rat race for the same thing; money. People are going to turn to crime and the Welfare case load will skyrocket as the slavery spreads. This will tear families apart and they will reach for the Oxycontin bottle or the needle. And there is nothing better than that. Some oldtimers will stick to the bars and the shots of whiskey that just make you regret everything you did in your horrible Christian existence. For anyone who has had the pleasure of trying Oxycontin, you would all understand this. If not, then you had better have one hell of an inheritance to keep that gas called money, going. Peace in Afghanistan and Turkey. To all the people that have anything negative to say about the Opium plant or Oxycontin, the Bible should be re-written to stone YOU to death. The son of a bitches only allow working stiffs to run to Dunkin Fuckin Donuts or Tim Horton’s to get a caffeine jolt to deal with all the horrible crap we deal with on a day to day basis. And for what? To suffer in the end from cancer anyway?

Heroin is the CURE for depression, cancer, life being absolutely horrendous, stock markets crashing… The only thing that keeps you people going is your credit cards. It gives you a feeling that you are actually winning the rat race.

That quote from that Chinese guy came AFTER the Industrial Revolution. Now, we are at a point where every single company seemingly on the planet is filing for bankruptcy!! In other words, history is repeating itself.

The government allows us stiffs alcohol, caffeine and that’s basically it. It’s a commie, police state.

The Poppy is the most important plant in the world – and one of the most beautiful. Give a woman a $75 bouquet of roses and she creams her pants. Give her a poppy plant and she has no idea how important it is.

People are on this kick to legalize marijuana. Marijuana should be legalized, but so should the poppy. Alcohol makes people violent. Heroin calms people down so that they love everyone; even their own enemies.

Why did 400,000 troops get addicted to morphine? Hmmm, there’s gotta be a reason right? But if we were to call THEM junkies and the scum of the earth, we’d be contradicting ourselves now wouldn’t we? The people that “protected our freedom!!!” LOL. Ever wonder why exactly hundreds of thousands of troops are buried in FLANDERS FIELDS? It’s because if they had the choice, they would stick with the poppy over anything life has to offer.

You Phd’s, doctor’s, pharmacists know jack shit about addiction. You think that people should “recover.”

Some people just aren’t the type for marriage and family. People have to start realizing that. The television shows us pictures of how our lives are supposed to be. Babies, fast food, mini-vans, pink houses with 35 year mortgages, marriage etc. It’s all bullshit. There is NOTHING on this planet better than HEROIN. Love is a joke, marriage is a joke and even most families are broken nowadays. It’s all about MONEY.

But the economy is all collapsing. People in the West are being forced to work for pennies and that’s not going to go over well when we are all used to making outstanding wages. Rents are outrageous and there is no reason to pay $1000 per month on a god damn APARTMENT in some city of 100,000,000,000 sheople driving around in a rat race for the same thing; money. People are going to turn to crime and the Welfare case load will skyrocket as the slavery spreads. This will tear families apart and they will reach for the Oxycontin bottle or the needle. And there is nothing better than that. Some oldtimers will stick to the bars and the shots of whiskey that just make you regret everything you did in your horrible Christian existence.

For anyone who has had the pleasure of trying Oxycontin, you would all understand this. If not, then you had better have one hell of an inheritance to keep that gas called money, going.

Peace in Afghanistan and Turkey.

]]> By: Chris http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4263 Chris Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:02:32 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4263 I have to disagree with the "addiction" people. I have taken oxycodone for 8 years. It has allowed me to have a life. For 4 years I had Am Surg. visits for 150 spinal blocks. The needles were 18 inches, not 12, so they could go through my spine into the pelvic cavity. It helped my pain immensely- it helped reduce the left side pain enough for me to realize the right side was in pain. The pain was so severe and widespread, I didn't realize I had "sides" of pain. For 16 years after that I had THOUSANDS of local injections. In my abdomen, pelvis and back. The doctor became ill and prior to his leaving he gave me oxycodone. I began with 3 - 5 mg. a day. However, I have taken 5- 6 (5 mg) a day for years. It allowed me to exercise and increase my muscle strength. One cannot have thousands of local injections (still regular size needles), without also creating scar tissue, so these pills have given me a life of quality. If people are abusers, they will abuse, if not one thing - something else. To withdraw this med is absurd. I have used other meds, and they do not help me. Now I have stopped the medicine to perserve what little I have left for "dire" times. But I have my cane out -again. When someone uses the medicine for ACTUAL pain, you do not become addicted. Pain sucks it up. If I become crippled again, bent in half, barely able to walk, or back in bed with jerking and burning limbs, well why bother living? I won't need the cane at that point. Oh, I have seen "psy" people. They always said I deal with the pain very well, and there is really nothing they can do to help me, I do it all already, so don't tell me I'm depressed. It's called reality and not only being crippled but in EXTREME UNRELENTING pain, that is incurable. I will not grow back nerves, body parts, so phooey on the "new therapies" spiel, been there, tried all the alternative therapies. I've fought to be alive, and survive. This med aided me living a life. I wonder if the theory of $$ is correct. It is a generic drug, that is inexpensive. Shame on the FDA for removing it. I really don't care if there are dust bunnies in the pill, or whatever. I can sit behind a bus and be killed by fumes faster. I have to disagree with the “addiction” people. I have taken oxycodone for 8 years. It has allowed me to have a life. For 4 years I had Am Surg. visits for 150 spinal blocks. The needles were 18 inches, not 12, so they could go through my spine into the pelvic cavity. It helped my pain immensely- it helped reduce the left side pain enough for me to realize the right side was in pain. The pain was so severe and widespread, I didn’t realize I had “sides” of pain. For 16 years after that I had THOUSANDS of local injections. In my abdomen, pelvis and back. The doctor became ill and prior to his leaving he gave me oxycodone. I began with 3 – 5 mg. a day. However, I have taken 5- 6 (5 mg) a day for years. It allowed me to exercise and increase my muscle strength. One cannot have thousands of local injections (still regular size needles), without also creating scar tissue, so these pills have given me a life of quality. If people are abusers, they will abuse, if not one thing – something else. To withdraw this med is absurd. I have used other meds, and they do not help me. Now I have stopped the medicine to perserve what little I have left for “dire” times. But I have my cane out -again. When someone uses the medicine for ACTUAL pain, you do not become addicted. Pain sucks it up. If I become crippled again, bent in half, barely able to walk, or back in bed with jerking and burning limbs, well why bother living? I won’t need the cane at that point. Oh, I have seen “psy” people. They always said I deal with the pain very well, and there is really nothing they can do to help me, I do it all already, so don’t tell me I’m depressed. It’s called reality and not only being crippled but in EXTREME UNRELENTING pain, that is incurable. I will not grow back nerves, body parts, so phooey on the “new therapies” spiel, been there, tried all the alternative therapies. I’ve fought to be alive, and survive. This med aided me living a life. I wonder if the theory of $$ is correct. It is a generic drug, that is inexpensive. Shame on the FDA for removing it. I really don’t care if there are dust bunnies in the pill, or whatever. I can sit behind a bus and be killed by fumes faster.

]]> By: chris http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4167 chris Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:46:34 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4167 i am only 20. i got addicted to oxy contin started with pain from tearing my rotator cuft.. my mom started giving me methadone for pain when perks and vic's just weren`t working for my pain. from there it went to oxy. eventually was taking 180 220 mg. but i guess i am just smart or something for my age and realizeed it was messing up my family and my life period.. but people gave me advice on my situation, their peerspective really helped me! but you guys really helped me out also!! THANK YOU!!! its nice to have knoweldge befor you go and start doing something. or someone to guide you like a doc/councelor (preferablly who has been through same things.) (wish i would have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). But oxy made me learn knowledge is key!!! period.. good luck to everyone trying to get off them but you stick to it you can i'm LIVING proof..... oxy ruined my friends and my family life.. if your thinking about doing it or getting it prescribed make sure you talk to someone about a way out! thanks again for making this site... think it will save peoples lifes! you dont even know! everything happens for a reason! Good luck chris i am only 20. i got addicted to oxy contin started with pain from tearing my rotator cuft.. my mom started giving me methadone for pain when perks and vic’s just weren`t working for my pain. from there it went to oxy. eventually was taking 180 220 mg. but i guess i am just smart or something for my age and realizeed it was messing up my family and my life period.. but people gave me advice on my situation, their peerspective really helped me!

but you guys really helped me out also!! THANK YOU!!!
its nice to have knoweldge befor you go and start doing something. or someone to guide you like a doc/councelor (preferablly who has been through same things.) (wish i would have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).

But oxy made me learn knowledge is key!!! period.. good luck to everyone trying to get off them but you stick to it you can i’m LIVING proof….. oxy ruined my friends and my family life.. if your thinking about doing it or getting it prescribed make sure you talk to someone about a way out!

thanks again for making this site… think it will save peoples lifes! you dont even know!

everything happens for a reason!

Good luck

chris

]]> By: mike http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4147 mike Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:41:41 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4147 i was hooked on roxies, oxies, tabs and percos for about 6 years. my tolerance got to the point where i had to spend at least 100$/day. i would miss work everyday that i couldn't buy any because people were out. it wrecked my life emotionaly and financialy. i lost it all in the end. finally, i had enough of it and i went to a methadone clinic. i was taking 130mg every morning. i have to say that methadone is worse on the soul than oxycontin ever thought it could be. i started to down my dose 10mg a week. finaly i got down to 5mg a day. my last day was christmas eve about 5 weeks ago. i have to say that coming off of oxys and roxys is a walk in the park compared to coming off of methadone. eventually, everyone that takes opiates ends up taking methadone in the end because everyone's tolerance will become so high to oxycodone and hydrocodone. when that point is reached, good luck, because kicking the habit of methadone is considered by many6 the hardest drug ever used to come off of. i'm still in severe withdrawals after 5 weeks. insomnia, loose stool, sweats, tremors and depression. opiate addiction numbers are probably equal to cocaine and meth addicts. the government does't want to change anything because it is a billion dollar industrty. from my experience, methadone clinics cause more harm than good. Randy, you haven't had to experience the pain of addiction yet but wait. sooner or later it's gonna be costing you 100+ dollars a day. i was hooked on roxies, oxies, tabs and percos for about 6 years. my tolerance got to the point where i had to spend at least 100$/day. i would miss work everyday that i couldn’t buy any because people were out. it wrecked my life emotionaly and financialy. i lost it all in the end. finally, i had enough of it and i went to a methadone clinic. i was taking 130mg every morning. i have to say that methadone is worse on the soul than oxycontin ever thought it could be. i started to down my dose 10mg a week. finaly i got down to 5mg a day. my last day was christmas eve about 5 weeks ago. i have to say that coming off of oxys and roxys is a walk in the park compared to coming off of methadone. eventually, everyone that takes opiates ends up taking methadone in the end because everyone’s tolerance will become so high to oxycodone and hydrocodone. when that point is reached, good luck, because kicking the habit of methadone is considered by many6 the hardest drug ever used to come off of. i’m still in severe withdrawals after 5 weeks. insomnia, loose stool, sweats, tremors and depression. opiate addiction numbers are probably equal to cocaine and meth addicts. the government does’t want to change anything because it is a billion dollar industrty. from my experience, methadone clinics cause more harm than good. Randy, you haven’t had to experience the pain of addiction yet but wait. sooner or later it’s gonna be costing you 100+ dollars a day.

]]> By: Keith http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-4045 Keith Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:58:27 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-4045 Larry i love you! you know what i mean lol. great response to randy. randy i am 27 years old, i am an addict in recovery form these drugs. i don't know how you can say you are addicted. do u know what addicted means? do u chase these drugs? if u didnt work 12 hour shifts and had no money, would you preform a crime or something completely demoralizing to another human for money to get these drugs? do u wait around after u took/snorted/shot/ate/whatever your dose and say damn i want more and use more, do you run short of meds for months on end? if you answered yes to these or any of those questions you may be addicted... if not then, can you not go a day without taking an narcotic(based on opium plant) drug? do you get sick if u don't have them? is Ur pain getting worse throat the years? if u answered yes to any of those questions you may be just dependent on the opiates. if you are only ONLY! dependent on these drugs then you cannot say that you are addicted to these drugs and change the subject cause they work for you. what is gonna happen when Ur tolerance skyrockets so high that you need Mg of methadone to "kill" the pain? are the doctors even helping Ur pain? or when the pill wears off is it right back? thats not medical care, thats just numbing it away. they need to fix the problem. in my mind taking an opiate so that you can have no pain to work 14 hours is like a mother giving her 10 year old a Ritalin so he can chill out in class. its not fixing the problem. but doctors don't see that. you may be the victim of horrible medical care. this may be the only thing you know. but i can tell you that there is life outside of opiates. and the pharmacist/addict who wrote the book. I'm gonna buy it soon. also suboxone is the ONLY drug since methadone that has even given opiate addicts a shot at normal life. they are not drugging their lives away. if u don't take suboxone and u are an opiate addict like i am then Ur lucky man. trust me you are freaking lucky. each person has their way. i noticed u got Ur book title out of the AA big book :-p thats the only other place i seen that phrase u used as a title. but yea suboxone is a miracle drug for some people, sure the people that just stay on it and don't fix their lives and those that sell it make a bad example but i can show you people that give suboxone a great name and that are normal humans now instead of pill seeking beasts. do some research on it and learn about it before you put it down. its easer to put something down than to do the work to learn about it. why do u think recovery is put down , cause addicts are lazy they don't want to learn about the steps and how to recover, so they bash it, cause its the easer softer way. if u actually see how bupe works and what it does for people and how it acts on the brain as an antagonist/agonst(not the naloxone either cause its inert, only active in blood) its simply amazing. and if u observe people on it, they aren't high or nodding out or seeking drugs. they are normal, productive people. u don't have this with any other treatment including methadone. so this is truly a landmark. sure some docs make $$$ off of it. but some docs help people to become people again. but allot of people don't see suboxone this way, thats cause it is just easer to bash it. Larry i love you! you know what i mean lol. great response to randy.

randy i am 27 years old, i am an addict in recovery form these drugs. i don’t know how you can say you are addicted. do u know what addicted means? do u chase these drugs? if u didnt work 12 hour shifts and had no money, would you preform a crime or something completely demoralizing to another human for money to get these drugs? do u wait around after u took/snorted/shot/ate/whatever your dose and say damn i want more and use more, do you run short of meds for months on end? if you answered yes to these or any of those questions you may be addicted…

if not then, can you not go a day without taking an narcotic(based on opium plant) drug? do you get sick if u don’t have them? is Ur pain getting worse throat the years? if u answered yes to any of those questions you may be just dependent on the opiates. if you are only ONLY! dependent on these drugs then you cannot say that you are addicted to these drugs and change the subject cause they work for you. what is gonna happen when Ur tolerance skyrockets so high that you need Mg of methadone to “kill” the pain? are the doctors even helping Ur pain? or when the pill wears off is it right back? thats not medical care, thats just numbing it away. they need to fix the problem.

in my mind taking an opiate so that you can have no pain to work 14 hours is like a mother giving her 10 year old a Ritalin so he can chill out in class. its not fixing the problem. but doctors don’t see that. you may be the victim of horrible medical care. this may be the only thing you know.

but i can tell you that there is life outside of opiates.

and the pharmacist/addict who wrote the book. I’m gonna buy it soon. also suboxone is the ONLY drug since methadone that has even given opiate addicts a shot at normal life. they are not drugging their lives away. if u don’t take suboxone and u are an opiate addict like i am then Ur lucky man. trust me you are freaking lucky. each person has their way. i noticed u got Ur book title out of the AA big book :-p thats the only other place i seen that phrase u used as a title.

but yea suboxone is a miracle drug for some people, sure the people that just stay on it and don’t fix their lives and those that sell it make a bad example but i can show you people that give suboxone a great name and that are normal humans now instead of pill seeking beasts. do some research on it and learn about it before you put it down. its easer to put something down than to do the work to learn about it. why do u think recovery is put down , cause addicts are lazy they don’t want to learn about the steps and how to recover, so they bash it, cause its the easer softer way. if u actually see how bupe works and what it does for people and how it acts on the brain as an antagonist/agonst(not the naloxone either cause its inert, only active in blood) its simply amazing. and if u observe people on it, they aren’t high or nodding out or seeking drugs. they are normal, productive people. u don’t have this with any other treatment including methadone. so this is truly a landmark. sure some docs make $$$ off of it. but some docs help people to become people again. but allot of people don’t see suboxone this way, thats cause it is just easer to bash it.

]]> By: Jason http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-3964 Jason Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:02:27 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-3964 As a practicing public school psychologist who regularly comes in contact with teens currently addicted to opiates or abusing prespection painkillers, I agree wholeheartedly with Larry's perspective. In the 15-19 yr old population, it is frequently considered a "party drug". What is not communicated by the drug companies nor effectively by our schools or public health officials is the propensity for addiction that these prescription drugs have. I am closely aligned with our public school systems which are charged with providing education on illicit drugs and I have found the inclusion of prescription drugs is still greatly lacking. What is so unnecessary is the devestation drugs such as Oxycontin have on unsuspecting children who become addicted in their formative years and find themselves no better off than the stereotypical heroin addict that is strung out in an alley. This is a serious epidemic, particularly in places such as where I reside and practice (Tampa/ St Petersburg, Florida). I have listened to Mr. Golbom's radio show and his perspective is entirely accurate and needed to counter the ignorant attitude of the FDA and many public health officials. I applaud Mr. Golbom for his show and for speaking up on what will likely become a national trajedy in years to come. As a practicing public school psychologist who regularly comes in contact with teens currently addicted to opiates or abusing prespection painkillers, I agree wholeheartedly with Larry’s perspective. In the 15-19 yr old population, it is frequently considered a “party drug”. What is not communicated by the drug companies nor effectively by our schools or public health officials is the propensity for addiction that these prescription drugs have. I am closely aligned with our public school systems which are charged with providing education on illicit drugs and I have found the inclusion of prescription drugs is still greatly lacking. What is so unnecessary is the devestation drugs such as Oxycontin have on unsuspecting children who become addicted in their formative years and find themselves no better off than the stereotypical heroin addict that is strung out in an alley. This is a serious epidemic, particularly in places such as where I reside and practice (Tampa/ St Petersburg, Florida). I have listened to Mr. Golbom’s radio show and his perspective is entirely accurate and needed to counter the ignorant attitude of the FDA and many public health officials. I applaud Mr. Golbom for his show and for speaking up on what will likely become a national trajedy in years to come.

]]> By: Nettie http://www.usrecallnews.com/2009/01/oxycontin-and-the-opium-epidemic-of-the-21st-century.html/comment-page-1#comment-3948 Nettie Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:09:46 +0000 http://www.usrecallnews.com/?p=3023#comment-3948 Interesting....and although the 'black market' for oxycontin is not really alive here in The Netherlands i would like to share my point of view, as an ex-oxycontin-addicted-and-chronic pain sufferer.... After a long (two months) and hard struggle I'm off Oxycontin now for three months! I was a chronic pain sufferer, very addicted and still in pain although I took 5x 40mg a day. I just had to call my doctor of the pain clinic to get a description.... I'm 47 years old and I knew something had to change and this addiciton was the first thing what had to go.... My new family doctor would help me to find another pain killer and find a good therapy to stand the pain when I was off the Oxycontin... Now, three months later, I am not in pain anymore. I walk and exersize again and enjoy life. What was causing this chronic pain all those eight years then???? Trauma's which were not processed....... Wrong therapy because of new discoveries in Physiotherapy..... If I hadn't stopped this addicition, I had never found out there was a possibility to heal.... to get treatment in a way which was good for me. If I hadn't stopped this addiction i'd know my character would have been changed for ever, my emotions blocked but, ok....without pain. But my pain is gone now too, although it will take at least a year to heal properly. I'm 'clean'! It's good to pay attention to this epidemic of Oxycontin addiction. Of course I'm glad there is a solution for all these chronic pain patients who also have a right to live without pain. But even when you are addicted chronic pain patient...... give yourself, your body and your relatives a chance to take every chance to get a normal life..... Every day new treatments and new medications are being developed. Maybe one of them suits you!! And all them who take Oxycontin as a 'party drug'? Grow up..... and count your blessings while you're still healthy.... I wish you a happy and healthy 2009! Nettie The Netherlands - Europe Interesting….and although the ‘black market’ for oxycontin is not really alive here in The Netherlands i would like to share my point of view, as an ex-oxycontin-addicted-and-chronic pain sufferer….
After a long (two months) and hard struggle I’m off Oxycontin now for three months!
I was a chronic pain sufferer, very addicted and still in pain although I took 5x 40mg a day. I just had to call my doctor of the pain clinic to get a description….

I’m 47 years old and I knew something had to change and this addiciton was the first thing what had to go….
My new family doctor would help me to find another pain killer and find a good therapy to stand the pain when I was off the Oxycontin…

Now, three months later, I am not in pain anymore. I walk and exersize again and enjoy life. What was causing this chronic pain all those eight years then????
Trauma’s which were not processed……. Wrong therapy because of new discoveries in Physiotherapy…..
If I hadn’t stopped this addicition, I had never found out there was a possibility to heal…. to get treatment in a way which was good for me.
If I hadn’t stopped this addiction i’d know my character would have been changed for ever, my emotions blocked but, ok….without pain.
But my pain is gone now too, although it will take at least a year to heal properly.

I’m ‘clean’! It’s good to pay attention to this epidemic of Oxycontin addiction. Of course I’m glad there is a solution for all these chronic pain patients who also have a right to live without pain.
But even when you are addicted chronic pain patient…… give yourself, your body and your relatives a chance to take every chance to get a normal life…..
Every day new treatments and new medications are being developed. Maybe one of them suits you!!

And all them who take Oxycontin as a ‘party drug’? Grow up….. and count your blessings while you’re still healthy….

I wish you a happy and healthy 2009!

Nettie
The Netherlands – Europe

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