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a bigger rush. Some users never even been prescribed this medication before. They just started buying them off the street illegally right from the start of their usage.

This drug is more available to the upper and upper middle class because of the cost of each pill. They cost usually about $10.00 per milligram. So for every one 80 mg. tablet it will cost you $80.00. Just like with any other drug, your resistance and drug use increases. We are beginning to see a scary rise in Ivy League University usage from students as well as Prep and Private schools.

The media is also making John Q Public aware of the preventable losses of celebrities who are overdosing on this drug. The Medical community sees a large profit as well as the Pharmaceutical Industries. The cost of this particular pain medication is extremely high priced and the insurance companies have to come up with the money to pay for this expensive medication.

This drug is fast becoming one of America's new drug crises. The sad fact of all this, is that this is a legal drug and legally it is O.K. for your physician to make the taking of this drug, habit forming. It's not a hard thing to do. Oxycontin are so powerful that just one 30 day supply of this medication and most people are physically addicted to them.

Oxycontin is fast becoming known as the rich kid's heroine. In all actuality, it all comes from the same source, the Poppy plant. Just as do Morphine, Codeine, Percocet, Darvocet, Vicodan and yes heroine too are manufactured from this lethal plant. However, science has not been able to duplicate the same type of pain relief that this plant produces. Not without all the lethal side effects. When science finally does come up with one we will be better off without such an highly addictive pain killer.

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