OxyContin Awareness


Name:Brian Email:[email protected] Type:General Comment Date:8/3/2005	My wife was an LCSW at a drug rehab. Got self seduced on oxy and took off with a patient - still alive but not the person I knew. Oxy can kill not only people but loving relationships too.

Name:Lana, Lost Sister Email: Type:Death Story Date:8/2/2005	This is my Sisters story (Barbara). She was murdered by her boyfriend who was abusing oxy and then he took his own life. It way May 13, 2002 (The day after Mothers Day) when I got the phone call from my sisters 16 year old son who informed me that his 13 year old sister had found her mother brutally murdered in her own bed. This was a horrible scene that no one should ever have to deal with. Her two childern came to live with me and are a doing well. I just wish I could say the same. How any drug could drive someone to something like that is beyond me. Barb was the most loving and caring person, the whole world lost an angel. This drug must be stopped. I love and miss my sister more than words can say. She was taken from us at the young age of 40. She will always be with us, we love you, mother,sister,daughter,granddaughter and friend.

Name:Nichole Roberdes Email:[email protected] Type:Death Story Date:8/2/2005	I am writing you in respect to an accidental overdose that took the life of my one year old son Aiden. Four months ago my Father died of cancer, and he had been taking the 80mg doseage of Oxycontin. On July 19th I had walked up the street to my stepmother's house to take her some Diet Coke. We were only there for ten minutes, but at some point duriing those ten minutes that my one year old was chasing the cat, he found one of my father's dropped pain pills (he was so doped toward the end that he was always dropping things) and chewed it up without me knowing. He fell asleep as soon as we got home, and a few hours later I tried to wake him up but he wouldn't stay awake. I took him to the emergency room. told them that I was afraid that he might have injested something, but they disregarded what I said, and treated him for what they thought was sepsis. He was then trasferred to Children's Mercy where he was cared for in the PICU until late Wednesday evening when they transferred him to a regular room beacuse they thought he was doing better. He had a variety of Siezures throught the night and finnally his respiratory system totally failed. By the time we saw my son agian his eyes where fixed and dialated, and we where being accused of having shaken him. He was pronounced brain dead on July 22nd at 2:40 pm, but we had actaully lost him hours before. It took a medical examiner to clear us of the charges of having shook him. After going back and reasking his doctors about how my son went 24 hours in hospital care without them having caught on to the clinical signs that he was displaying of suffering from cerebral edema due to drug overdose I realized something. That even with the number of deaths taht are contributed to this drug each year, there are still doctor's out there that have no idea of how devastating that this drug is, or how seriously it needs to be taken. And all in a pill the size that a oneyear old can keep in his mouth without even being seen. That is more than just a dangerous drug. It is like genocide in compact form. I am hoping that in sending this letter to you, that you will have the resources to yell to the highest tower that this drug is bad, and the proper education needs to not only go to patients, but to any doctor that might ever come into contact, perscribe, or treat the effects of this medicine. I am enclosing pictures so that everyone can see what this "wonder drug" has cost my family.

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