[corkoman]

As I understand it, another reason that oxycontin is popular is that it's easy to become addicted to it, and hard to kick, kind of like crack

No, the reason its popular is that it is an effective product. Its sustained release of oxycodone provides 12 hours of pain relief and allows the patient to forgo taking several standard oxycodone tablets throught that time.

Reefer Madness morons like this witch hunter make effective clinical treatment of patients in pain all the more difficult. In general doctors UNDERtreat pain partly out of fear of witch hunters like this.

Stay healthy.

[Erik Latranyi]

The OTC drug abuse problem is HUGE.

The demand for painkillers for recreational use is HUGE.

The demand for painkillers for pain relief is HUGE.

The problem cannot be solved by another drug-war.