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Let's see; cold as hell, and cabin fever, and no providers around for miles! Yah, I think I could see how easy it might be to pick up a habit. 
is that doctors can't ever judge someone else's pain level. They can judge our drug tolerance level by our body weight, and if we have any itching or swelling allergies to codeine. But pain level you have to give a 1-10 in post op surgery for IV drugs. The original Oxycontin put on the market was water soluble and it didn't take drug addicts long to figure that out. It wasn't the same generation of my granny's doctor hopping. Doctors were referring patients to pain clinics that were in chronic pain that needed extended refills for narcotics. I am sure there is a lot of blame to go around, but for me TODAY, as someone that was caught in a group of doctors where one was getting me off the drugs while the other was getting me on the drugs.. TODAY, I am not a victim and it is my responsibility to tell my doctor the truth. I chose a recovering addict for a doctor and the strongest thing he has ever given me is Tramadol and they do absolutely nothing for my pain. I break them in pieces and give them to my dog when she can't stand up. I get more relief from 2 arthritis strength Tylenol everyday, and I smoke weed because I dealing with the pain on my terms. Not harming myself or no one else. My personality is the same. And I function at a fast paced life that doesn't have time to go round n round on that addiction roller coaster anymore.
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Very well said and thank you for having the courage to share your personal experience.
Inadvertently? there is nothing inadvertent about this phenomenon. That dose not excuse people from making stupid mistakes.
When friends tell friends chew a OC or two , it will take your problems away , or take a few puffs
of heroin , and watch the magic dragon of tranquility appear , with the biggest lie of all drug lies , "smoking heroin is not addictive like mainlining" .
OxyContin is a valuable drug when used as prescribed to people that require something much stronger than aspirin for severe pain management .
The problems with Oxy and devastating addiction , usually evolve when the user chews Oxy for magnified effect . When used as prescribed the average patient will suffer a mild flu like symptom during withdrawal if any withdrawal at all .
If the pharmaceutical company would put a compound in Oxy that would cancel the opiate like effect when chewed , addiction would drop drastically and sales would drop .
I get the picture .
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