Wow. I had no idea the fricking pills went that that high on the black market....around here my cop buddies say, they dopers substitute black tar heroin which tickles the same fancy for 1/10th the price. The Obama class of white trash trogs score the pills, then sell to yuppie addicts and use the cash to buy the heroin or juts trade outright for the stuff to pushers who work both ends.
I have to believe, given how addictive they are (hooked Rush Limbaugh) that the pharmaceutical companies (like big tobacco) are consciously involved in the “crisis” to build sales.
With the extended unemployment benes running out for many, that might be driving the increase in crime as they have to steal more now to fill their habits instead of cashing G checks.
You hit the nail on the head.
Oxy was developed for terminal patients to deal with pain. (At least that is what I've been told by my doc) It supposedly is better than Morphine and easier to administer.
But now its prescribed for back pain and leg pain and anything else and the only reason I can think of is there must be a hefty monetary kickback from the med makers for Docs to prescribe such poison.
The primary reason the pain pills are so addictive is because they make not care. They really don’t do much of anything to block the pain, they just block your ability to find the pain annoying, anybody on them that stops to think about it for a bit realizes they’re still in agony, but they don’t mind. Anything that can make excruciating pain a non-issue makes a lot of other things not matter. They’re happy pills. And happy pills get people hooked fast.
My brother is addicted to pain pills. Has been for years. My mother has spent thousands of dollars of her own money to buy back heirloom jewelry of hers that he stole and pawned. She refuses to press charges. He continues to live at home. Sadly, I’ve had to divorce myself from my family as a result.
This stuff is tantamount to legalized cocaine and heroin, and in many ways its worse. It’s so easy to get on the street that most kids laugh when you mention pot. “Pot is for hippies,” the local kids have said. They want Oxys, Roxys, Percs and Vikes. This is all being ignored on a national level, but it’s become too big to ignore in most places. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say there were massive payoffs by “big pharma” to lawmakers to keep this out of the public eye.
You are likely to be no more than 2 degrees of separation from someone who is themselves an addict or knows someone who is. My wife’s late husband died from a deliberate Oxy overdose, and my brother will likely end up on a slab before he’s 40.
Around here the cops tell me the going rate is a buck per milligram. And Oxy is prescribed in doses ranging from 20 - 100 milligrams for each pill IIRC.