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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.

Buying oxycontin off the street is more expensive than buying heroin. So is that taking pills orally makes it more acceptable and when they prove to be so expensive people go on to heroine because its cheaper even though the way to get it into your body is less desirable?