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#11987093 - 02/08/10 10:07 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010 10:02 am
Ohio pharmacists filled 2.7 million prescriptions in 2008 for high-powered painkillers such as OxyContin and Percocet, narcotics that contain oxycodone; that’s nearly one for every four people in the state, reports the Columbus Dispatch. They filled 4.8 million prescriptions for hydrocodone medications such as Vicodin, one for every 2 1/2 people in the state. County sheriffs say their jails are full of people who illegally sold or abused those drugs, underscoring what’s quickly gaining attention as a national epidemic.
Last week, the Adams County sheriff rented vans and shipped his prisoners to community centers throughout his southern Ohio county so he would have room in his jail for 28 people who were rounded up in a prescription-drug sting. The problem is statewide, but southern Ohio is particularly ravaged. The drug abuse is bad in this Appalachian stretch of Ohio for a number of reasons, authorities say: Scioto County’s unemployment rate hovers around 15 percent, and the drug trade can be lucrative; bordering states of Kentucky and West Virginia have significant amounts of prescription-drug abuse. The area has a track record of limited resources and uncooperative elected officials who have refused to help with drug investigations, said William Winsley, director of the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy. Those factors have created the perfect environment for illegitimate pain-management clinics — “pill mills” — where prescription drugs are easy to score. Authorities say that as many as eight such clinics could be operating in Scioto County alone, a county of about 74,000 people.
http://thecrimereport.org/2010/02/06/illegal-prescription-drug-pill-mills-reported-rife-in-southern-ohio/
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: Whatupfool12]
#11987205 - 02/08/10 10:28 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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pill mills, when I hear that I think of the ecstasy farms I've seen with asians sitting around all day punching out epills.
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: Whatupfool12]
#11987350 - 02/08/10 10:50 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Damn, I've been down to Southern Ohio many times, and never really noticed anyone using pills, I mean a lot of people smoke, but I never would have thought this.
Hmm
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: bardleyrichard]
#11987473 - 02/08/10 11:12 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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If they would only legalize weed then you wouldnt have people all doped up on prescription drugs doing such stupid things and ending up in jail. Prescription drugs I believe are worse than weed will EVER be.
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: Whatupfool12]
#11987649 - 02/08/10 11:41 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Prescription Drugs FTW 
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: Whatupfool12]
#11987651 - 02/08/10 11:41 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Prescription Drugs FTW
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My advice is to find those things that give pleasure and do them often without too much attachment and relax and wait for the show to end.
-Icelander-
I like free markets and all. Truly I do, at least in general, but there needs to be some kind of oversight in recognition of sustainability. Life works the same way, on a bunch of sustainable systems. Why not honor what made us what we are and take some lessons? Nature FTW!
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: dill705]
#11987935 - 02/08/10 12:25 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yup I am just west of Adams County, Ohio and can tell ya Oxys, Percs, Vicodin, etc. is everywhere. Everyone and their mother has a script basically. There is a lot more pills than good ol' herb, which is IMO pretty sad, especially considering an Oxy 80 can cost up to $80.
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: ShroomingChaos]
#11987973 - 02/08/10 12:34 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
ShroomingChaos said:
If they would only legalize weed then you wouldnt have people all doped up on prescription drugs doing such stupid things and ending up in jail. Prescription drugs I believe are worse than weed will EVER be.
that wouldnt fix much, maybe a tiny percentage would quit, but most likely all the people who are currently addicted to prescriptions, even mentally slightly addicted, they wont just quit cause they can get legally high with ganja, most likely they will smoke when ever they like anyway.
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: dill705]
#11989454 - 02/08/10 04:03 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
dill705 said:
Prescription Drugs FTW
Wooot!
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: D.M.T]
#11990293 - 02/08/10 05:47 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
D.M.T said:
Yup I am just west of Adams County, Ohio and can tell ya Oxys, Percs, Vicodin, etc. is everywhere. Everyone and their mother has a script basically. There is a lot more pills than good ol' herb, which is IMO pretty sad, especially considering an Oxy 80 can cost up to $80.
how does 1 of 2.5 ppl have a script.
id love one,lol.
how would one of these ppl get it so easily?
hypothetically.
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: aNewPerception]
#11990519 - 02/08/10 06:15 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
how does 1 of 2.5 ppl have a script.
id love one,lol.
how would one of these ppl get it so easily?
hypothetically.
yes i am a concerned citizen and i would like to know how these "thugs" are acquiring scrpits
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: Sandoz]
#11990566 - 02/08/10 06:22 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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OxyContin and Percocet are pain pills. Doctors prescribe pills for pain. It really is that easy.
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: D.M.T]
#11991040 - 02/08/10 07:21 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
D.M.T said:
Yup I am just west of Adams County, Ohio and can tell ya Oxys, Percs, Vicodin, etc. is everywhere. Everyone and their mother has a script basically. There is a lot more pills than good ol' herb, which is IMO pretty sad, especially considering an Oxy 80 can cost up to $80.
Hell $80 is pretty cheap for an 80. Go a little further south and their $100. I live pretty close to this area. When I was growing up it was all weed, beer, and maybe a little acid.But now all that has changed to pills. I had a rough time myself for several years with OC's but now I steer really clear of opiates in general
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: veggie]
#11991120 - 02/08/10 07:29 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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veggie said:
OxyContin and Percocet are pain pills. Doctors prescribe pills for pain. It really is that easy.
Especially with those clinics.
Patient: My back hurts.
Doc: Oh really!! Ok Im going to write you 180 hydros, 90 soma, 90 zan's. BTW you did pay your $300 at the door correct??
Patient: Yup!!
Doc: Ok the nurse will let you know where the pharmacy is
I think that pretty well sums it up
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: MrKnightVision]
#11991562 - 02/08/10 08:15 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pfizer and their colleagues are the biggest drug dealers in the United States, and pharmacists are their middlemen.
That's how 1 in 2.5 ppl has a script, lol
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: D.M.T]
#11991876 - 02/08/10 08:50 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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40% of the population? That would be sad if that really is the case. Somewhere along the line I think enough addicts lined up that average people went to get prescriptions to sell to the addicts. Easy dirty money.
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: Rabid Jelly Bean]
#11991911 - 02/08/10 08:54 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well... that statistic falls in the category of the 95% that are made up on the spot, but there is a basis of truth to it somewhere. 
The "TRUTH" is...
Everybody must get stoned.
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Re: Illegal Prescription Drug “Pill Mills” Reported Rife In Southern Ohio [Re: Whatupfool12]
#11993111 - 02/09/10 12:58 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Whatupfool12 said:
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 10:02 am
Ohio pharmacists filled 2.7 million prescriptions in 2008 for high-powered painkillers; that’s nearly one for every four people in the state
I think they may have overextrapolated that ratio from the statistics (refills?).
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