03-04-2011, 02:09 PM
Here is a recent article talking about prescription drugs. Oxycontin is the same as Percocets, I believe.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/02/...paink.html
Overdose deaths climb as painkillers, heroin pour into Ohio market
Published: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 6:00 AM
As the more potent painkillers have flooded the market -- making them easier for some suburban teens to score than beer -- demand for purer heroin has also boomed, causing drug poisoning deaths to swell by more than 350 percent statewide since 1999.
Prescription opiates like OxyContin are basically just pharmaceutical-grade heroin, said Orman Hall, director of Ohio's Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services. They are the most addictive substance that anyone can get hooked on.
"The heroin problem is driven by the prescription drug problem," he said.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/02/...paink.html
Overdose deaths climb as painkillers, heroin pour into Ohio market
Published: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 6:00 AM
As the more potent painkillers have flooded the market -- making them easier for some suburban teens to score than beer -- demand for purer heroin has also boomed, causing drug poisoning deaths to swell by more than 350 percent statewide since 1999.
Prescription opiates like OxyContin are basically just pharmaceutical-grade heroin, said Orman Hall, director of Ohio's Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services. They are the most addictive substance that anyone can get hooked on.
"The heroin problem is driven by the prescription drug problem," he said.