Oxycontin Express

At a Sustainabilty Council (of which I am a member) meeting, one of my colleagues with a Ph.D. in biochemistry told me to put the unneeded pain meds from Big D's back surgery into a plastic bag, add cat litter and water, and throw it in the trash. She said that it is a green alternative.

It's not, while the cat litter will absorb the dissolved medicine it doesn't alter them or break them down, thus when the bag rips they are still released into the environment.

This is really sad, but looks like FL is on the way to tracking. Most likely many doctors will find themselves with their licenses to practice revoked. It explains the number of people I have encountered with a pocket full of pills and they are sold at a premium.

I didn't know oxycontin was heroin, however. Dang spooky!

A lot of the over the counter prescription pain killers are opiate based. These drugs can be very addictive because they are carefully designed / purified forms of the original drug.

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.. these are very effective drugs. You just have to be careful.

I'm not sure what you mean by "over the counter prescription", but I think you mean prescription drugs available from your pharmacy. I don't think there are any opiate based drugs you can just buy off the shelf like aspirin. That would not be a good thing. On the other hand, I've had to use these prescription drugs for post op pain relief, severe toothache, and wisdom tooth extraction. All I can say is that they are very effective if used properly. I've never used the big daddy Oxycontin, but I can imagine there are some people who would rightfully trade their severe chronic pain for the possibility of addiction and overdose.

There is at least one dr. in Destin who dispenses drugs from his office, cash only and he has you coming in once a month. He is called "The Feel Good Doctor." And, I think there is one in Chipley, too.

I'm not sure what you mean by "over the counter prescription", but I think you mean prescription drugs available from your pharmacy. I don't think there are any opiate based drugs you can just buy off the shelf like aspirin. That would not be a good thing. On the other hand, I've had to use these prescription drugs for post op pain relief, severe toothache, and wisdom tooth extraction. All I can say is that they are very effective if used properly. I've never used the big daddy Oxycontin, but I can imagine there are some people who would rightfully trade their severe chronic pain for the possibility of addiction and overdose.

Oxycontin is a wonderful drug if used properly. The problem is in many cases it is not being used as prescribed. They should really regulate the obvious and put an end to what is going on in S. Florida. I know a young girl sitting in jail locally who was caught up in that mess. You go in and get whatever you want. Big money. The Doc can see 100 patients plus a day at about $150 a whack. The visit takes about 5 minutes. The take for the day is $15,000 give or take. Take that times 5 days a week and you have a get rich recipe. I guess $75,000 a week will pull some retired Docs out of retirement.

All three clinics are owned by 29-year-old twin brothers Christopher and Jeffrey George. American Pain had been in operation for five weeks prior to the raid.

The 14-month criminal investigation of all three clinics discovered that American Pain had five primary physicians working full-time last year and together administered more than 2 million of the highly addictive oxycodone pills, according to the federal court documents.