The Illegal use of Oxycontin

Attention Getter A pill cutter, a bottle of water, a credit card, a straw, a thick white powdery line, therefore a sniffThis is the deadly and illegal use of OxyContin, or early(a) kn aver in my town as OCs.Credibility This is a bittersweet description of an on going p tweaklem in my rattling own town. This is a description of a very super addictive disquiet pill called Oxycontin. This botheration rest period is already workling the lives of many of my friends and many tidy sum in this country. I feel as though precautions must be met to stop the illegal use of OxyContin from spreading.Purpose The purpose of my speech is to explicate to all of you the belt downsides and the heavy addiction that this pain reliever causes. I in person believe that this rapidly increasing problem must be stopped. I realize that there is no denying that its recreational use and nuisance be a problem, there is a nonher more important problem of at least equal concern the needs of wad tru ly pitiable from chronic pain and in need of OxyContin for pain relief.Forecast didactics The negative aspects for both street users and patients and explain what pharmacists, physicians and representatives from the Purdue drug companyceuticals be doing to ensure that this music remains available for those who need it and stays out of the hands of those who abuse it.The synthetic opioid OxyContin has become a do medicates of abuse, fol pocket-sizeing in the move of different prescription medicine drugs that contain Oxyco tangle withe, the active ingredient in OxyContin. The level of abuse and the number of people who feature died because of OxyContin abuse are evolution.At first many pain specialist initially believed that the controlled- wrick oxycondone had a low potential for abuse, boy were they wrong. In recent social classs, this drug has exploded to the streets. The in vogue(p) report from the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Agency, states that Oxycontins have played a role in everywhere 282 people since the beginning of 2002. The DEA says that it is simply a matter of era before every community in this country is confronted with the problem of Oxycontin abuse. No prescription drug in the last twenty years has been so widely abused after its release.Oxycontin was pain reliever meant to do good, not bad. Oxycontin is prescribed to patients, who are chronic pain, patients who are dying of cancer, subscribe from major surgery and or suffering from unbearable headaches. This pain reliever is known for its significant improvement over all other pain relieving medications. The time-release mechanisms allow the right amount of the medication to be released to keep bear on relief for people in severe pain for up to 12 hours.Not only street users become addicts, patients also become very prone to their own medicine. Many patients go threw heavy withdrawal symptoms when their prescriptions have ended. No longer will insurance pay or doctors urina te verbally prescriptions. So they too must turn to the black market to achieve their addiction. In the worst cases some patients turn to heroin because Oxycontins to expensive.Before a person is prescribed this pill, the patient is supposed to undergo a collar physical examination, the patients record should be contained with detailed documentation of the nature and book of the pain, current and past treatment, other illnesses, and their history of drug and alcohol use. consequently the jeopardizes, type, dosage, and quantity of the pain medication must be explained to the patient. Prescriptions will only be filed out during office hours, lost prescription slips will not be rewritten or otherwise replaced, lost or stolen medications will not be replaced. If asked by the doctor, the patient can be submitted to drug exam and urine screening to ensure that the patient is taking a controlled release of the oxycodone. All of these steps must be taken before the prescription can ev en be written out by the doctor.The computerized axial tomography Company, Purdue Pharma, first introduced Oxycontins in December of 1995. Since then the popularity of this pain pill has grossed to over 1 billion dollars in U.S. retail Sales last year with of 5.5 million prescriptions written.Street users are attracted to the drugs euphoric high. The time- release is licked or peeled off of the pill. It is then crushed with a hard purpose broken up to a white powder, then it is broken up into very small lines and snorted or mixed into a dilute and injected into their veins. The drug then provides a high very similar to heroin, like heroin, it becomes highly addictive. OxyContin is a narcotic drug. Narcotic drugs cause not only a physical addiction but also a psychological dependence. Narcotics are drugs that produce a change in response to sensations. Sounds appetizing doesnt it.The problem with OxyContins is that each tablet contains higher amounts of narcotic than any other pain killers, because of the extended action of the medication. Authorities suggest that this is the reason for the streets popularity. OxyContin abusers who have neer used heroin may be attracted to heroin when they can no longer afford the high street level price of OxyContins. heroin is much cheaper and gives a stronger feeling of euphoria.You may ask how do these drugs get into the hands of abusers?Pharmacy workers take the drug directly from the shelf. People create fraudulent prescriptions. People with or without true illness visit some(prenominal) doctors, perhaps even in several states to obtain a spectacular quantity of the drug. Dishonest doctors write improper prescriptions for specie or favors. Addicts rob houses, nursing homes and pharmacies just to get high.On the other hand, many doctors dont prescribe it because they dont want to be guess of irregular practice. As a result of numerous robberies many drug stores no longer carry Oxycontin for the fear of macrocosmne ss robbed. All of these factors are hurting the people who are legally prescribed OxyContin or other narcotic pain relievers to treat legitimate conditions, often are below the belt accused of being addicted to the pain medications. Misconceptions about proper pain management sometimes lead to under-utilization of available pain medications. Cancer patients and people in recovery are at a high risk of losing their medication because of the increasing sillegal use of the drug. Many law suits are being brought against Purdue that might hurt the avaiblitly of the drug.What is being done to stop this rapidly growing epidemic?Purdue Pharma has responded to the growing problem of OxyContin abuse by distributing over 400,000 brochures to pharmacists and healthcare professionals to educate them on preventing diversion. Legislative initiatives are also being drafted to make Oxycontins distribution less appealing by creating more inflexible penalties.Meeting with law enforcement officials i n several states. Offering grant money for education and drug abuse prevention programs. Purdue Pharma claims it is committed to purpose solutions. In the long term, millions of dollars are being spent on enquiry and development a new pain medication, less likely to be abused. A new painkiller, still in development, is not expected to be available for at least three years, and has yet to be named. Purdue Pharma is anticipating that clinical trials will begin in early 2002. However, years of interrogation and the FDA approval process are hurdles which must be exculpated before anything newly-developed can be marketed. Clearly, that is not an immediate solution to the OxyContin problem. Thats why the DEA has stepped in with a sense of urgency, offering its proposals as deterrents to the abuse.There is way of life around it, illegal OxyContin use is a problem. Its both. OxyContin is one of the best-selling brand-name drugs in the world, and also one of the most abused drugs. Althou gh, this pill is meant to help dispense with lives it is killing more than it is helping. Many street users of OxyContin are young, like my friends at home are who are unaware of how potent these tablets can be. The addiction to this pill is so dangerous and if is not taken under control it will control you. If you know someone who may be addicted please get them help before there lives go down the tubes. I hope you all can see how important this issuing is. It is affecting my life, I hope you can stop it from affecting yours.