tentram
Ex-Bluelighter
Interesting read and stats none the less. Cheers for posting it.
% of pain management patients that abuse and/or sell their scripts?
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BeachBum4u
Bluelighter
Interesting! I've been a PM patient for over 25 years (geez, maybe almost 30+) and I've never ever sold my drugs. Heck, I need them too much to ever think about doing that. The other problem is that I don't hang with folks who'd be interested in buying or even asking for them. There was a time when I was prescribed as much as 120 80mg Oxycontin and from what I've read, I could have made a killing selling them (probably could have quit working). But who the heck wants to worry about being set up and being sent to prison? To boot, I needed every last pill. My gut feeling tells me that very few PM patients actually sell their meds but I'm not naive enough to believe the number is zero. Too much cash to be made and with the economy this bad, one does what he/she has to, right?