I went out on my own after lunch and was able to find a few pharmacies stocking Oxycontin, all 5, 10 and 20mg IR. However, they are selling for as high as $18 US per 10mg capsule!!! I tried to explain the concept of volume over profit margin but not one of the 6 pharmacies cared. I wouldnt pay 18 even if I was in the throes of withdrawal...well, maybe that isnt true haha but I sure as hell will not pay it when a gramme of #4 is costing $20 US.
Im beginning to buy into the whole Global Warming brouhaha. Been here 8 days and it only rained once. We are at the height of Monsoon so that the weather is extremely off kilter. That said it is about to rain now and Im happy as thunderstorms are my favourite weather. With sporadic rain downpours in Monsoon tend to involve lightening and thunder. I think it is a bit selfish of me to love Monsoon when each year thousands- often tens of thousands of Asians drown and hundreds of thousands lose their homes. In fact, now that the Lake is gone the remaining squatters get flooded in any heavy rain. It is strange because when the Lake existed many homes and guesthouses were on stilts in the Lake itself. Yet they were never flooded until the Lake was gone.
This morning the homeless woman came up to me and tried to get me to take a coubterfeit casino token from Naga World, a hotel and casino that I used to use to...well, to "exchange" cash for me. Those were days when Cambodia didnt even have ATMs. Those were the days when very heavy weight came through this city. Now only small time penny ante fools like Nigerians use the city to transship materiel. I shudder to think about people ingesting fingers off of surgical gloves packed with 10 gramme rocks of #4. Nigerians are usually too stupid too cultovate relationships with officials. If you stroke the right people you can move even guns through the airport and while that is scary, no would be terrorists are any smarter than most Nigerians.
Just before my past visit a Swedish woman and her son were mailing packages of codeine with APAP to internet customers. They never paid anyone off and so one day when the woman arrived to mail a package the police were waiting. If the arrest hasnt reached the media yet you can easily buy your way out. The going rate is $2,500 per kilo of #4 so that she could have probably gotten away for under a thousand. She had only a few dollars on her (US currency is used here and is more coveted than Cambodian currency. She called her son but as soon as he learned that she had been pinched he panicked and made his way to Poi Pet and crossed into Thailand. Mom was then tossed into gaol and is now in prison. I cannot say what happened to her son but he was never charged here. Cambodia will not pay to extradite.
Im beginning to buy into the whole Global Warming brouhaha. Been here 8 days and it only rained once. We are at the height of Monsoon so that the weather is extremely off kilter. That said it is about to rain now and Im happy as thunderstorms are my favourite weather. With sporadic rain downpours in Monsoon tend to involve lightening and thunder. I think it is a bit selfish of me to love Monsoon when each year thousands- often tens of thousands of Asians drown and hundreds of thousands lose their homes. In fact, now that the Lake is gone the remaining squatters get flooded in any heavy rain. It is strange because when the Lake existed many homes and guesthouses were on stilts in the Lake itself. Yet they were never flooded until the Lake was gone.
This morning the homeless woman came up to me and tried to get me to take a coubterfeit casino token from Naga World, a hotel and casino that I used to use to...well, to "exchange" cash for me. Those were days when Cambodia didnt even have ATMs. Those were the days when very heavy weight came through this city. Now only small time penny ante fools like Nigerians use the city to transship materiel. I shudder to think about people ingesting fingers off of surgical gloves packed with 10 gramme rocks of #4. Nigerians are usually too stupid too cultovate relationships with officials. If you stroke the right people you can move even guns through the airport and while that is scary, no would be terrorists are any smarter than most Nigerians.
Just before my past visit a Swedish woman and her son were mailing packages of codeine with APAP to internet customers. They never paid anyone off and so one day when the woman arrived to mail a package the police were waiting. If the arrest hasnt reached the media yet you can easily buy your way out. The going rate is $2,500 per kilo of #4 so that she could have probably gotten away for under a thousand. She had only a few dollars on her (US currency is used here and is more coveted than Cambodian currency. She called her son but as soon as he learned that she had been pinched he panicked and made his way to Poi Pet and crossed into Thailand. Mom was then tossed into gaol and is now in prison. I cannot say what happened to her son but he was never charged here. Cambodia will not pay to extradite.