And those who rely on oxycontin for quality of life must choose between street drugs or suicide. Anyone curious about the stats can find them at the ACSH website—anti-junk science scientists and medical folks. I’ve been following their research on the government crackdown on prescription meds, aka threatening doctors into not prescribing to chronic pain patients. A fiasco all around and doesn’t change the reason why people are addicts.
Fortunately, it didn’t happen to anyone in my family, but I understand that before Oxy there were a lot of people suffering from chronic pain. It seems to me that stricter controls on manufacturing, distribution and prescriptions makes more sense than trying to drive manufacturers out of business and deprive people of meds they need.