Just some of the victims of the OXY EPIDEMIC

also see my GUESTBOOK and feel free to post your story to help warn others

07/19/07 - Over 500 names on this VICTIMS page and it closes on the day the Purdue Criminals are sentenced in Court.

06/11/04 - there are 365 names on the memorial page

11/11/03 - there are 252 names on the memorial page

April 2002 report from the Drug Enforcement Administration that OxyContin
might have played a role in 464 drug overdose deaths in a two-year period.

02/19/02 Eddie's death anniversary there are 118 Death's recorded in my guestbooks that are OXY related.

From the PRESS:                                                                  
12/12/01 Asa Hutchinson DEA chief said new information from medical examiners across the country has linked the drug to almost 300 overdose deaths in 31 states. Officials are also looking into about 500 other deaths that could be related. 

                                                             
11/02/01 DEA Links OxyContin to 282 Deaths

06/27/01 Philadelphia Medical Examiner reported there were 40 deaths showing oxycodone as of 6/27. Up from 41 deaths for all of 2000 and 17 deaths in 1999.

06/13/01 the DEA reports:
Emergency department and coroner reports involving the active ingredient in OxyContin have increased 200% and 400% respectively since 1996. For the year 2000, the DEA has also received 291 coroner reports from the six states most affected. Treatment programs in such states as Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Virginia reported between 50% and 90% of new patients said OxyContin was their primary drug of abuse. In some cases, entire towns have suffered the effects of illicit OxyContin abuse

OxyContin and other morphine-like drugs killed 152 people statewide in FL during the final six months of 2000.

3/4/01 Officials say at least 120 deaths can be attributed to abuse of OXYCONTIN. (nationwide). In Philadelphia area at least 23 deaths have been linked to OXYCONTIN
ABUSE.

2/9/01 To date, the report notes that at least 37 deaths can be attributed to the abuse of OxyContin (nationwide)

Matt

My mother was such a wonderful person everyone loved her we never expected for this to happen to her..April

Father's day

Janice Napier

Shane
 

Pamela Sue Evans

03/02/64

02/11/65

09/27/99

YEAR

OLD

Glenn was a roofer and fell off a roof. One morning, he didn't wake up.  They said his "heart stopped", it was found to be enlarged and damaged from constant drug abuse.  OXY ABUSE.  Not heroin, not crack, not meth....it was a drug prescribed by a doctor for pain that turned into a prescription for death. 

Mary was 49 when she died from the results of Oxycontin.  She was my soon to
be mother in law.  She died 5 months before I married her son.  In late
March 2004, she was rushed to the emergency room with a toxic mega colon.
She died two weeks later as a result of constipation caused by Oxycontin
which resulted in the mega colon and then septic shock.  She left behind so
many people who loved her.  She was a free spirit who loved everyone she
met.  Her light and her humor and her generosity touched so many people.
She was robbed of ever knowing her grandchildren, watching her son get
married, and god knows how many other wonderful experiences.  We placed a
chair with her mother of the groom corsage on stage when we got married, and
during the ceremony there was a moment of silence for her.  On what would
have been an otherwise joyous day, people were weeping, not from happiness,
but from loss.  Oxycontin robbed my husband of his mother and my children of
one of their grandmothers, and for that I will forever be infuriated.

  We will always have two pieces of our lives missing, you and your sweet baby!  Until we meet again, sister???I will pray for you and to see you once again!

Love Always and Forever

Your One and Only ?Big? Sister

Katie