Oxycontin: concentrated opiate for extreme pain &dying (and Rush Limbaugh)

[angka]

(source: http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs6/6025/6025p.pdf)

OxyContin, a trade name for the narcotic oxycodone hydrochloride, is painkiller available in the United States only by prescription. OxyContin legitimately prescribed for relief of moderate to severe pain resulting from injuries, bursitis, neuralgia, arthritis, and cancer. Individuals abuse OxyContin for the euphoric effect it produces-an effect similar to that associated with heroin use.

Oxycodone is a central nervous system depressant. Oxycodone’s action appears to work through stimulating the opioid receptors found in the central nervous system that activate responses ranging from analgesia to respiratory depression to euphoria. People who take the drug repeatedly can develop a tolerance or resistance to the drug’s effects. Thus, a cancer patient can take a dose of oxycodone on a regular basis that would be fatal in a person never exposed to oxycodone or another opioid. Most individuals who abuse oxycodone seek to gain the euphoric effects, mitigate pain, and avoid withdrawal symptoms associated with oxycodone or heroin abstinence.

Oxycodone, including OxyContin, are Schedule II drugs under the Federal Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. Federal sentencing guidelines for diverted Schedule II pharmaceuticals are determined by the total weight of the tablets, not strength. Similar drugs of lower strength like Percocet and Tylox may weigh more than OxyContin, thus distributing the same quantities may result in stiffer
penalties than for distributing OxyContin. Authorities in Maine, in conjunction with the U.S. Government, launched a new initiative in 2000 regarding OxyContin abuse. The Maine Attorney General’s Office has proposed legislation seeking to make possession of a large number of OxyContin tablets a felony; such possession is currently a misdemeanor.

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Just thought you might want to know. Not Percocets or any kid stuff. Concentrated, sustained-delivery high-potency opiate. That will knock your conscience down for you in the morning, eh, El Rushbo?

Doctor, please
some more of these
outside the door
she took four more!
What a drag it is getting old!
-The Rolling Stones

[Abe Linkman]

1. OxyRush dittoheads are actually liberals. Here's how we know.

Smart liberals know that most Americans embrace progressive/liberal ideas...in economics, legislation, law, and social issues. Most of Rush Limbaugh's supporters who have taken the time to post messages on various right-wing forums have pretty much come down on the side of compassion. Rarely have I read about anyone even talking about his alleged drug use as being a criminal issue. No talk about him allegedly buying illegal drugs. Just "he's accused of taking pain pills", "so what if he took pain pills", etc.

No law and order stuff. No talk about putting him in jail. They're all liberals. See!

[angka]

4. explicit double standard

which means their standards are meaningless.

[proud patriot]

2. at least we now know how these guys sleep at night

not very good w/o the drugs

[stevedeshazer]

3. LOL

I've wondered that myself.

[David Zephyr]

5. LOL With Stevie D

Toooo funny! :hi:

Proud Patriot"at least we now know how these guys sleep at night"

[Nevernose]

6. IT'S IMITATION HEROIN

Take enough, and you get a high very similar to heroin. OxyContin has become the most widely abused prescription drug in the last two years precisely because of this.

Rush is a smackhead.

[angka]

7. yup.

i know kids who can't get enough of these. common smackhead. and oh, yeah.

supporter of terrorism.

oh god this is good good stuff

[Cheswick2.0]

8. not really imitation.... it is an opiate and you don't have to take much

the trick with this stuff is to crush it. The pills themselves are time release, so they are crushed and ingested either by eating, snorting or injecting (mixed with water).

[PaDUer]

9. It's a safe medication IF

you take it as prescribed by your doctor..However, oxycontin is being misused by druggies. Our local area is cracking down and arresting people left and right..Matter of fact, one of Scranton's finest, cop, was arrested yesterday at his place of work, which happened to be the chief of police's office! He was making his "deals" right from the chiefs phone! 30yr old cop..he made a quick decision and went right into rehab! Wonder WHO told him to take the high road so his sentence is cut down..

[angka]

10. bump

I take one one one 'cause you left me
And two two two for my family
And 3 3 3 for my heartache
And 4 4 4 for my headaches
And 5 5 5 for my lonely
And 6 6 6 for my sorrow
And 7 7 7 for no tomorrow
And 8 8 8 I forget what 8 was for
And 9 9 9 for a lost god
And 10 10 10 for everything everything everything everything
-Violent Femmes

[OneTwentyoNine]

11. Malloy wants to know if he's a OxyMoron....Heh he n/t

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