OxyContin Awareness


Name:James Marshall Email: Type:General Comment Date:11/13/2002	I am truly saddened by the loss of your precious child. I could not even imagine how you are feeling. However, I have also seen the great effects of this new pain-killer. I have seen people who did not have an ounce of dignity left, in hopeless agonizing pain, become whole again with this medication. Should they suffer because of the abuse of this medication by a minority of individuals. Oxycontin is safe, if taken as directed. It is actually less potent then the immediate release products of oxycodone, i.e. percocet, oxy ir, and percodan. If taken as directed one percocet will give you 5milligrams of the drug, immediately while one 40mg Oxycontin will only give you 3.33 milligrams of the drug spaced over an hour. You can take Oxycontin off the market! Then what? The chronic pain patients will suffer, and the addicts will ask their dealer for something else, i.e heroin, vicodin, or percocet. Don't the rights of the pain patients mean anything. Think of how many people commit suicide because of un-relenting pain. Do those lives count? Well, we can disignate it for severe pain only! How can a doctor differentiate between severe and moderate pain? Your doctor should trust his/her patients when they say they are in pain. They are not the Police. They are our Doctors. These are questions that need to be answered before we jump to conclusions. There are other options. Please look at the other side. Visit a Cancer Center or Nursing Home or a Rehabilitation Center and watch these people in pain. Please.***************************************************************Ed Bisch: Not all patients feel the same way you do BUT I know this drug has it's place HOWEVER it is overly prescribed and HUGE numbers are on the street due to it being overly prescribed and marketed for MILD pain..

Name:A.L.H. Email:gufbal 234 Type:Death Story Date:11/12/2002	My good friend died from "Oxys" on August 21st 2002. Although people knew he had mixed the "Oxys" with Footballs and cocaine. Nobody spoke up and he died a senseless and preventable death. Considering I was with him the night before he died. His death affected me terribly. I had seen him take handfuls of pills and be fine. Thats why when he overdosed, it was hard to believe. Just know it can happen to anyone. No matter how much drugs you can handle, or how high your tolerance is. Death can creep up at any time.

Name:Chelly Griffith Email:[email protected] Type:General Comment Date:11/12/2002	Dear Ed, Thank you so much for all the information. As I sit here reading all the stories you have received, I become angrier at the entire "Oxycontin" situation. So much sadness, so much suffering. I applaud your dedication in the memory of your boy, and I am truly sorry for the horrific loss you've endured. Oxycontin has injected it's lethal hooks into so many unsuspecting individuals, it is sickening. It is unbelievable to me that "legal heroin" can be manufactured, approved, marketed to the hilt, and prescribed freely in The United States of America. So many people....innocent people caught up in one way or another in the web of a venomous killer. I have to let people know about "Prescription for pain with a lisence to kill"........marketing strategies that make physicians mentally omit all clinical and ethical boundries they were taught in med school. The lack of liability and accountability on this issue has to be stopped, and Marianne and I will get this done.

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