Oxycodone purchases are dropping in Florida

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With a towering mound of pain pills next to him, Gov. Rick Scott Monday offered a hopeful snapshot from the frontlines of Florida’s fight against epidemic prescription drug abuse.

Sales of oxycodone — a pain medication that has plagued Florida as the No. 1 cause of prescription drug deaths last year — are down 17 percent for the first five months of 2011, he reported during a news conference at the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office, underscoring the deadly nature of the public health crisis.

The news came as the state released a report that outlined in grim detail the human toll of the abuse. Deaths caused by prescription drugs last year were up about 9 percent. Of the state’s 9,001 drug-related deaths, more than half — about 5,600 — died with one or more prescription medications in their systems.

“Over seven people a day are dying of drug overdoses. I have had drug abuse in my family and it’s just devastating,’’ Scott said. “But there are good things to see. The number of purchases [by pharmacies and practitioners] are down.’’


Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/15/2360442/oxycodone-purchases-are-dropping.html
 
i'd think this would piss big pharma off lol. If they have such a pull with the government then this must be unacceptable. The real proof will be hospital records that show less people are dying from prescription opiates and/or heroin. Less sales of oxycodone doesn't really mean anything, maybe they switched to hydrocodone, or fentanyl or heroin. Since they are also accounting for drug deaths due to more than one prescription medication, a more effective method of reducing harm would be to tell people not to mix their downers.
 
^ this. I know when the new 80s came out and people stopped buyin em, loads of people switched their scripts to opanas and dilaudids and things that sell. Like everyone is sayin, I highly doubt opiate addicts just stopped using. IMO these stats are a direct result of Purdue pharmacy.
 
And misery is going up.

All these draconian anti "pill mill" laws do is punish the many senior citizen chronic pain patients in the state -- it won't put a dent in street supply and will in fact increase demand of diamorphine.
 
^^^It is only a matter of time.... once all the prescription drug databases go online and the pharmacy's are linked it'll be harder for people to get opiates... I heard that the clinics themselves are closing up too but there are so many still that it wont be done any time soon. When it is done tho I bet south Florida will be a new hot spot for dope.

People from S FL on here are like damn I can never get dope or any good dope except some people in Miami I think. Once it hits there and people start trying it I bet it'll take off and be huge just like the oxycodone did haha. Florida, Florida, Florida what are they gonna do with them lol.
 
How would the govenor know about oxycodone street sales? Is he talking like the actual company is selling less oxy in Florida? If thats true then no shitpeople are just switching there prescriptions to other things. Govenor Scott is extremely unpopular right and we all know that looking tough on drugs is great politics. Scott desperatly needed a good headline he got it but nothing has or will change that is for sure. I love political theater.
 
Even though sales may have dropped... I remember reading an article a couple weeks ago about a single doctor in Florida who wrote more scripts for oxy last year than the entire state of California.
 
^My thoughts exactly. Not counting the fact that heroin purchases are probably going up, I'm sure hydromorphone, oxymorphone and other potent opiate scripts are up, even if the evil "OxyCotton" is down. That's all the media cares about anyway.
 
crimsonjunk said:
How would the govenor know about oxycodone street sales? Is he talking like the actual company is selling less oxy in Florida?
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They track the amount of product being bought by doctors and pharmacies. I think they track it by total number of pills, which is misleading because it gives equal value to a 5 mg percocet and an 80 mg oxycontin.
 
They track it by pounds of Oxy produced and sold at a federal level then at a state level
 
All that really hasn't made much of a difference here at all. The started the program up so people are not doctor shopping any more, and that has lowered the amount of pills on the streets. But not by much, damn near anyone can still go to the doctor and get their scripts you just can't go to more than one and No it hasn't brought more heroin here, I wish it would but the blues are still king.
 
^ I think that they mean all oxycodone products, including oxycontin, roxi, percocet, oxy IR, etc.
 
TheLostBoys said:
Seems as tho the CIA & DEA are trying to push the heroin trade by getting rid of Oxy.
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I seriously hope you are joking. But the military openly knowing about the heroin and poppy crop in Afghanistan and even the Commandant of the Marine Corps publicly saying that the U.S. would not interfere with the farmers makes me wonder too.
 
I'm curious as to what they are switching to, though. The only reason I slowed and the then stopped purchase of blues was bc they more than doubled in price. I was spending $400/day. So I got onto the methadone clinic, and once a week or so, will buy a dozen or so, pills. Get caught up in it again for a day or three, and then when I am out of money, go back to the clinic, sleep it off, and dry out again.
Ironic to look back a few years when I was coming off of 2 grams of dope/day and I would laugh at the "pill junkies" in rehab next to me, like, "Man, you don't know shit" and now I'm doing it too. But why did I switch from H to pills to begin with? Same reason, the pills (at the time) were cheaper and more bang for your buck. So I guess it is whatever is most cost effective.
 
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