View All General Comment Abuse Story Death Story Chronic Pain Story       Please sign our Guestbook Name:Lyn Email: Type:General Comment Date:6/14/2002 I don't really do drugs, at least not heavy ones.. and I don't tend to experiment.. but I have had friends who do and it was really good to see your show on MTV. It made me a lot more aware, and your website did even more so. I think that setting the facts straight for people who have tried it or who might try it is a really great idea, and the message you're putting out there is very beneficial.   Name:Robin Email:[email protected] Type:Abuse Story Date:6/14/2002 On March 2,2002 my stepmother,55 years old,had a stroke,2 weeks after the death of my father.Once in the hospital,they discovered she had an adult form of leukemia.As I would sit there and watch this wonderful,full of life woman get drained of everything in her life from all of the meds she was on,I wondered what could be the problem.She would constantly complain of the pain in her back and literally could not move.The doctors would not take any xrays because of the fact they could not move her.So starts the pain meds.First it is a morphine drip,that does not work,then they start the ocycontin-too soon after the morphine is not out of her system.On top of all the other meds she was taking for the cancer,she was being over medicated.I sat there as she was starting to fall into what would've been a coma had no one been in the room with her.As I watched the doctors come into revive her with more drugs,ekgs,breathing tubes I wondered how could this be happening??As I read the stories here the docs ARE so fast just to prescribe a pill without wondering why do they really need it?If they would've taken the xrays to begin with,they would've discovered that she had a degenerative disk in her back from years ago.That is what the pain was from.The oxy made her hauliscinat,sweat unbelievably,and she couldn't remember things.As we sat in her room,and heard her talk and tell stories,We as her family knew they were not true,however the nurses and docs did not know.Had it not been for us to be there to say "Oh don't believe her it's just the meds talking" they wouldn't really know if she had taken her pills 5 hours ago or 5 minutes ago on the last nurse shift.I truly believe that the oxy is what did that to her,and the docs are so quick to prescribe something.Today she is recovering and having her chemotherapy treatment.She does not take any meds unless she knows exactly what it is or what it is for.ROBIN   Name:bryce Email:[email protected] Type:General Comment Date:6/14/2002 I think that there are too many other pain medications out there for doctors to prescribe and that oxycontin should only be prescribed to the dieing cancer patients. If it is out there in a community, i feel that an addicted teen or adult can have access to it. The drug has already killed too many people and alomst killed many more. I had a cousin and an uncle who alomst over dosed on the drug. The drug made them feel that they didnt want to live anymore. They both ate a little bit and then took quite a bit oxycontin. I feel that if they would not of ate, then they would no longer be around. I don't know what it would be like to lose a relative becuase doctors are over prescribing a drug that is highly addictive. For the people who are reading this I hope that u or your family members have to go what I went through not once but twice because of Oxycontin. Thanks!

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