I’ve been prescribed OxyContin for post-surgical pain three times. I’m wondering how anybody gets high on the stuff. All it does to me is put me to sleep. Aside from that the only long-term effect was massive constipation.
For the last few years I’ve been taking a lesser “opioid” drug to help me cope with disabling back pain. Without it I would have been suicidal long ago. This “War on Drugs” has made my life unnecessarily miserable by requiring me to drag myself personally to a brick-and-mortar pharmacy every month. My online pharmacy can’t dispense it anymore, nor am I allowed more than 30 days’ supply at any one time.
For every sob story about addiction there are hundreds like me who need the help, and are having a hard time getting it, or are being denied it altogether. We have been forgotten in this mad rush to demonize OxyContin and its’ analogues.
“For every sob story about addiction there are hundreds like me who need the help, and are having a hard time getting it, or are being denied it altogether.”
This is the really sad part of it all. It’s a shame that many who actually need the help are now denied it. It’s just not right. The world has lost all common sense.