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Absolutely not. Heroin addicts cannot chose OxyContin (so the health care industry has nothing to do with it). A person that is tolerant to Heroin, no pill in the world will work on them, they simply just will not feel it at all. It is like giving a moonshine drinker a glass of water. Heroin hits the nervous system with such a tremendous punch no pharmaceutical pain killer would ever work on them. Even a person that even snorts heroin would never even feel an 80 mg OxyContin even if they injected it. Plus heroin is cheaper, so a real heroin addict would never prefer a pill to the real stuff. Oxycodone is not anything like heroin! And a heroin addict would never prefer a pain pill over heroin because heroin is cheaper.. Health care and the medical field do things with good intentions. OxyContins were not created to create junkies. OxyContin was created for people that live in chronic pain and or terminal cancer. Money is a motivating factor in everything however education is the key word here. People create addicts. People that are in pain management sell their pills for money, people sell their pills in general, people steal pills from people's homes and people chose what they want to do. But they do it because there is a demand, a need. Is the country promoting addiction because they have Methadone clinics?

Ultimately what it comes down to is, people need to take responsibility for their actions. Everyone is so quick to point their finger at someone and put the blame for their own problems on someone else. When you are messing with drugs of the magnatude of OxyContins you are going to be addicted.

Heroin that is cut down to the end is still more powerful than anything in the pharmaceutical sense. With the exception of one drug I will not mention. Heroin is cheaper. Heroin can go for as little as 10 dollars a bag, where pain pills can be paid for as high as 1 dollar per milligram. Kids play around with pain pills, but they can never be compared to a street junkie on heroin. These are two completely different realms. Everyone can be an addict, but a junkie is another thing.

Health care is NOT promoting addiction nor are opiate class drugs even advertised on television. Pharmaceutical companies are and NOT just with opiates! And it all depends on the pharmaceutical are you are talking about. Anti-depressants which work on serotonin. The precursor to dopamine release is in a sense is how cocaine works but it is controlled. Ambien a sleep aid which they advertise

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