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Oxycodone
Percoset
"There's nothing good about drug use… Drug use destroys societies… And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up. What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use… The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river (to prison) too."
Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh talking about drug abuse. Later it was revealed he himself was addicted to painkillers and he put himself into a thirty day treatment program. (Addiction does not discriminate.) |
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"I'll tell you straight up, you can get addicted to pain medication so fast, you hardly even know that it's happened. I've seen people who've never even smoked weed start taking medication for their back and a year and a half later, they're sticking a gun in some pharamcist's face demanding all the pain medication. And that's because once you're addicted to this type of drug, you will do ANYTHING to avoid the pain of withdrawal. It's the worst f**king thing I've ever experienced and I that's coming from someone who did two tours in Nam'." Casey R. Clean (and sober) 11 years as of Dec. 2006.
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Meet The Opioid Family Codeine
Darvocet
Dilaudid Fentanyl Extremely potent pain reliever estimated to be 80 - 100 times more potent than morphine, the base ingredient in many pain pills. This is an extremely dangerous drug and in the past year, has been linked to hundreds of deaths by overdose. Fentanyl is used as an additive to street heroin and we discuss this topic extensively in our heroin section which you can find in our Addiction Library- Drug Index. Hydrocodone Other trade names of hydrocodone are Anexsia®, Hycodan®, Hycomine®, Lorcet®, Lortab®, Tussionex®, Tylox®, and Vicoprofen®. These are all available as tablets, capsules, and/or syrups. Generally; this drug is abused by oral rather than intravenous administration. These are extremely popular drugs of legitimate and illicit use and currently in the U.S. alone, about twenty tons of hydrocodone products are consumed annually. Lorcet® Vicodin®
MS Contin®
Percocet®
Percodan®
Stadol®
Summary On The Painkiller "Family"
There are other brand names, Darvon ( a combination of codeine and propoxyphene) Demerol (meperidine) Ultram (tramadol) as well as all the other morphine derivatives. However, by now you probably wish you paid more attention in chemistry class (we know we do) but at least that gives you a quick overview of some of the more popular drugs of abuse. So before we discuss another word about the chemistry and science of painkiller addiction, let's take a look at some of the sociological and societal aspects of the problem, because this is where it really gets interesting. On the next page, we'll begin with the "who" of the equation.
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