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re: Anyone got caught up in the Oxy pandemic?
Posted on 12/24/25 at 10:59 am to 777Tiger
Posted on 12/24/25 at 10:59 am to 777Tiger
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I'm not a doc but I disagree with that, there are addictive personality types that can become addicted to anything, and it doesn't have to be chemically related, I just had surgery a couple of days ago and was prescribed hydrocodone, I took it initially as needed, and the wife got one out this morning and told her I didn't think I need it today, pain is subsiding nicely
What you are likely taking is closer to Tylenol compared to what was available during the epidemic. Hard core opioids change a person’s body chemistry where they become physically ill without them. At least that’s what my professor in university taught us.
One of my dearest friends got addicted. Probably the kindest and most generous person I’ve ever known. He clawed his way out of it and is now a successful business owner out our way. You’ve probably run across him around LC and would never know what he went through.
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Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:02 am to 777Tiger
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not the pharmaceutical industry's fault that individuals abuse them
The intentional misrepresentation of their data led to a bunch of individuals abusing at the advice of doctors. Not entirely the patient/addict's fault.
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 11:03 am
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:03 am to redstick13
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What you are likely taking is closer to Tylenol compared to what was available during the epidemic.
I've had some pretty hard core stuff prescribed, broke my back a few years ago and they were giving me everything on the shelf, probably would still have a lot left over(if we hadn't disposed of it properly,) I take it if I need it, otherwise I don'rt wife is the same way, I think it's the personality more than the drug
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:06 am to BabyTac
No but I got caught up in these
“People on Ludes should not drive”
“People on Ludes should not drive”
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:06 am to BabyTac
Tons of people. Used to associate with a lot of addicts apparently. Several are dead, most ended up going the heroin route at some point, the shelf life for them wasn’t typically long after that. A buddy who got hooked pretty bad when we were younger and I reminisced at the Vegas game vs usc all the people that are dead or had their life destroyed it was a pretty depressing conversation.
Lucky for me was never my thing l, tried a couple of times and it would make me puke uncontrollably and generally made me feel like shite. My body I guess had enough of a negative reaction that I never really felt the need to dive deeper.
Lucky for me was never my thing l, tried a couple of times and it would make me puke uncontrollably and generally made me feel like shite. My body I guess had enough of a negative reaction that I never really felt the need to dive deeper.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:08 am to Robin Masters
If someone starts taking drugs illegally, it's always a character thing. I can understand someone taking drugs once, due to peer pressure, etc. But continued drug use...character.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:10 am to BabyTac
Edit: I went and looked at the pill bottle just now. It was OXY.
I remember being prescribed simple Percocet after oral surgery. I took a half pill. Not gonna lie, it felt awesome. I remember the feeling and telling myself that I could absolutely see how people get addicted to this shite. Never took another one. Still have the pill bottle 10 years later filled with 14 1/2 pills.
In high school one of my good friends used to take Lemmon 714’s. He seemingly never got addicted and grew out of that. However, two or three that he associated with died of OD’s within the past 10 years. I went to high school with both of them.
I remember being prescribed simple Percocet after oral surgery. I took a half pill. Not gonna lie, it felt awesome. I remember the feeling and telling myself that I could absolutely see how people get addicted to this shite. Never took another one. Still have the pill bottle 10 years later filled with 14 1/2 pills.
In high school one of my good friends used to take Lemmon 714’s. He seemingly never got addicted and grew out of that. However, two or three that he associated with died of OD’s within the past 10 years. I went to high school with both of them.
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 11:16 am
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:11 am to BabyTac
My deceased boss was prescribed Oxy due to severe back pain. He eventually became very addicted to it, and then moved on to Vicodin once they would no longer prescribe him Oxy. At the time of his death, he was on Methadone because he never could kick the addiction.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:11 am to 777Tiger
I’m not saying you’re wrong but my buddy wasn’t an addictive personality. We partied during university up to some pretty crazy yayo nights. Neither of us had issues until he got introduced to Oxies. Thankfully the rest of our group didn’t get caught up in it.
That said I got to hang out with said dude a few months ago in Amsterdam and we thoroughly enjoyed a night on mushrooms
That said I got to hang out with said dude a few months ago in Amsterdam and we thoroughly enjoyed a night on mushrooms
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:12 am to LSUTANGERINE
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Still have the pill bottle 10 years later filled with 14 1/2 pills.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:13 am to BabyTac
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Anyone got any stories from the wrong end of this?
A friend was prescribed Oxy for some issues he had. The scripts ran out, but he didn't want to quit. He was at that time, a pharmacist, so he didn't quit -- at least not until he got arrested for stealing the pills.
He lost his job and eventually lost his wife. They had a small child, and she did what any mother would do after rehabs didn't last, she divorced him. He did go straight for a while and got his pharmacy license back -- no easy process -- but a month into his job as a hospital pharmacist he was caught siphoning off morphine drips.
There were more rehabs and relatively brief periods of sobriety followed by relapses. There were car wrecks, crazy stories, and all sorts of standard junkie behavior over the next 25 years. He was, at one time, a professional aluminum can recycler and cleaned up around frat houses after parties to make a little cash. You didn't need a license for that.
In the process, he alienated his friends and most of his family, but nothing was his fault. He did, eventually, hit rock bottom.
I'm not sure of the details, but a local pastor saved him, gave him a menial job and a Bible, and he has been straight for 7-8 years now. He has repaired most of the broken relationships, but the decades of drug-induced craziness has taken its toll on his body, and mind. For someone who made it through pharmacy school, iPhones are often too much of a challenge. It's sad in many ways, but he is now sober and saved.
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 11:15 am
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:14 am to 777Tiger
You’re also 78 and stupid
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:16 am to NIH
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You’re also 78 and stupid
seemed to have avoided all of the major mine fields along the way, yep, pretty stupid
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:16 am to BabyTac
Went to a catholic high school in br from 05-09 and it was BAD around then. Im talking there would be dudes grinding it up on their calculator pad anytime you went to the bathroom. I know several that went to rehab for it including my cousin, and also alot that switched to heroin when Oxy got too expensive and sadly died. It was a huge issue around that time.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:16 am to 777Tiger
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They could have that delayed reaction like in the wolf of Wall Street.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:19 am to BabyTac
Yes. My sister in laws side of the family.
Great family, professionals. Unfortunately their Daughter got cancer. Perscribed oxy with literally no limit of supply.
I didn't witness the entire downfall being I was several states away. The long and short is this. Cancer patient used the drugs to deal with the pain.
The parents again professionals with their affairs in order, fell victim to the drug after years of watching their daughter battle and beat the cancer only for it to return again years later.
I'm not exactly sure how they started using the drug all I know is watching the daughter die was the cruelest thing I've ever witnessed. The tumor actually grew out of her mouth before she passed. Shook my faith. Proved to much for the parents & from where I sit understandably so. Both parents permanently checked out a couple years after she passed.
Great family, professionals. Unfortunately their Daughter got cancer. Perscribed oxy with literally no limit of supply.
I didn't witness the entire downfall being I was several states away. The long and short is this. Cancer patient used the drugs to deal with the pain.
The parents again professionals with their affairs in order, fell victim to the drug after years of watching their daughter battle and beat the cancer only for it to return again years later.
I'm not exactly sure how they started using the drug all I know is watching the daughter die was the cruelest thing I've ever witnessed. The tumor actually grew out of her mouth before she passed. Shook my faith. Proved to much for the parents & from where I sit understandably so. Both parents permanently checked out a couple years after she passed.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:24 am to BabyTac
I’m gonna take gummies for pain when and if needed.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:32 am to 777Tiger
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why is that? there is a legitimate need for pain management, not the pharmaceutical industry's fault that individuals abuse them
Purdue Pharma committed numerous ethical violations along with knowingly making false claims about the safety profile of their drug along with essentially bribing the FDA. All while ignoring mountains of data regarding the extremely addictive properties of their drug. Plenty of reasons not to trust them.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:33 am to BabyTac
Shattered my ankle in 2006 - docs gave me oxy's powerful enough to leave me drooling on the couch for 12 hours at a time. It damn near hooked me but I was too much of a drinker to spend money on pills. The way they get you hooked to heroin or illegal pills is by yanking your prescription from you before your treatment is complete. Luckily I wasn't taking the full dosage and had enough to last until my ankle was ready to go.
Posted on 12/24/25 at 11:44 am to Ed Osteen
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The fact that they got away with prescribing a 160mg oxy for a brief period is still mind blowing to me
That breakthrough pain baw.
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