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News: 20.08.09 - 'Hillbilly heroin' black market booming

"A strong black market for oxycodone has developed in Australia, and some experts are concerned that Australia could be trending towards US consumption levels, where deaths from oxycodone now outweigh deaths from both heroin and cocaine."

Yet alcohol and tobacco kill ten times more each year than heroin and cocaine combined, can someone please explain why these extremely dangerous drugs are legal?
 
alcohol + tobacco are used by nearly every teen and adult. heroin and cocaine arnt.
 
alcohol + tobacco are used by nearly every teen and adult. heroin and cocaine arnt.

What's your point? If they continue to use them for a period of time they will most certainly die from lung or liver failure later in life, why are they legal? For f$$$ sake they kill millions of people every year and put a massive strain on the medical systems of every country. I ask again, why legal?

Ill add pot into the mix, the only and i mean ONLY reason that is illegal is because it keeps most police, judges, prison guards and wardens employed. But they are losing the battle slowly and surly on that one. With more and more people waking up to the facts everyday it wont stay illegal for much longer. Not one proven single person on the planet earth has ever died from smoking or consuming pot. Period.

Its time to wake up and smell the shit that the governments are putting right under your nose, alcohol and tobacco keeps one half employed and prohibition keeps the other employed.
 
Police get tough on prescription painkiller abuse

Posted Wed Sep 9, 2009 11:08am AEST

Police are cracking down on the illegal use of a prescription painkiller as new figures show possession of narcotics in New South Wales has risen by nearly 18 per cent in the past two years.

OxyContin is a narcotic for pain relief which can be injected by drug addicts as a substitute for heroin.

The state's Police Commissioner, Andrew Scipione, says the illicit sale of a prescription painkiller is an increasing problem, particularly in regional areas.

Mr Scipione says police are noticing some addicts are going 'doctor shopping' to get a number of prescriptions for OxyContin and then the drugs are sold illegally.

Two women at Young have been charged over the supply of OxyContin in the past two years.

The crime manager of the Cootamundra command, Dave Cockram, who helped investigate the Young matters, says OxyContin is an emerging crime issue.

"As far as I command is concerned it's certainly something we didn't see or weren't aware of seven or eight years ago but in more recent times we're certainly seeing that there are drug users or drug abusers in our community that are turning to these sorts of drugs," he said.

He says it is a growing problem and police are working with doctors and pharmacist to crack down on it.

"We've liaised with the Department of Health and we've had some experts from their investigation section ... provide us some information in relation to the quantities of this type of drug that is around this region and what's basically happening in each part of our commands," he said.

The new figures on criminal drug use are from the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.

ABC News
 
i work at a hospital... They dont stock oxycotin, only 5mg endone.. You wouldnt believe how many ppl come thru asking for oxys faking a painful conditions..
 
Baby-sale mum in prescription drug case

Liam Houlihan | September 20, 2009 12:00AM

A VICTORIAN who allegedly tried to sell her baby online has been charged with a string of offences relating to an alleged "hillbilly heroin" racket.

The 13 charges came after the Sunday Herald Sun exposed a $20,000 haul of thousands of prescription pills netted in a one-person sweep of suburban pharmacies.

Petra Williams has been charged with theft and multiple counts of making and using false documents and obtaining property by deception.

Sources said Ms Williams was expected to be charged with up to 70 more "chemist crawling" offences.

Ms Williams first came to public attention for trying to sell her baby on the internet in 2002.

She allegedly wanted $10,000 from an American couple for her unborn child.

But she backed out of the deal the moment her daughter was born.

The American couple said at the time they had already decided to name the baby "Joey" for her Australian roots.

Ms Williams' husband discovered her plans while looking on their home computer.

She said at the time she did not feel guilt or shame, but later considered her daughter priceless.

The alleged pharmacy crawling spree came to light in May.

The haul was handed to the Sunday Herald Sun by a concerned reader and was passed on to the authorities.

Valued at $20,000 on the black market, the pills were allegedly bought at concession prices for little more than 1 per cent of that figure.

The alleged crime is believed to have involved forged prescriptions.

The drugs contained oxycodone and were intended for the relief of serious pain, including by cancer sufferers.

But drug addicts sometimes use the pills as a cheap substitute for heroin.

The packets are believed to have been bought in one person's name from pharmacies across Melbourne over 15 months in 2003-04.

The person hit pharmacies 32 times in one month and 34 times the following month.

The first pharmacies were in Frankston, Chelsea, Seaford, Aspendale, Patterson Lakes and Mordialloc.

The second were in Werribee, Hoppers Crossing, Altona, Noble Park and Dandenong.

The person who gave the pills to the Sunday Herald Sun said police were not interested.

Ms Williams faces a mention hearing in the Werribee Magistrates' Court on November 18.

Herald Sun
 
lol at the 5mg packet on the report, theres so much binder in them capsules!, you need like 10+ of them fills a whole spoon, so end up having to use a 3ml syringe and wheel filter. here in nz oxycodone is very cheap, half the price of what morphine is!! only because most people here turn the morphine (baking soda, aa, citric acid) into cheap h. so theres always more demand for morphine than oxys lol.
It really is only just starting to catch on here! the govt sibsidy for oxy is much better than for morphine, so I guess more doctors/pharmacists are ordering oxy than morphine due to cheaper subsidy cost and also the mass advertising the pharmacys receive (have a friend working at a pharmacy and theyve been receiving alot of little flyers and gadgets like pill boxes and such from the oxy stockists ha!), interesting!..
 
Prescription drugs abused

TORY SHEPHERD | September 22, 2009 12:01am

AUSTRALIANS are increasingly abusing prescription drugs such as oxycodone, which is also known as "hillbilly heroin".

Experts warn we are heading down the same path as the United States, where more people abuse prescription drugs than they do cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, ecstasy and inhalants combined.

Anaesthetists wrote in yesterday's Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Bulletin that "naive" doctors need to be more sceptical when patients ask for pain relief.

"We `naive doctors' who have been trained all our lives to believe our patients and accept that `pain is what the patient says hurts' and trained to take things at face value are now being asked to become suspicious, questioning and, in fact, sceptical if we are asked for prescriptions for opioids or benzodiazepines," ANZCA's Faculty of Pain Medicine dean Dr Penelope Briscoe said.

She also backed a call by doctors for the Federal Government to review the prescription and dispensation of opiates.

Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia pharmacotherapy services director Professor Jason White said the main prescription drugs abused in Australia, and in South Australia, were oxycodone and morphine.

Nationally, the use of morphine tablets has increased 40-fold since 1990, and there has been a four-fold increase in the supply of oxycodone, one of the drugs on which actor Health Ledger overdosed last year.

"A major part of that is the increasing prescribing of these drugs, particularly the opioids," Professor White said.

"We know that the more they're prescribed, the more they are used, the more people will develop problems."

He said there were two sides to the problem – people becoming addicted to drugs they began using to treat an existing pain problem, and prescription drugs being sold to people through the illegal market.

The drugs have a sedative effect and are highly addictive.

AdelaideNow
 
They just have to mention that oxycodone was involved in Heath Ledgers death. Useless fucking reporting, which way do they want to argue, that illegal drugs are bad and could have anything in them or quality controlled drugs are bad because they contributed to the death of an Australian celebrity and get you high?

The media needs to shut the fuck up when it comes to drugs, they have shown time and time again they know fuck all about them. I personally believe Australian drug users would be better off if there was more of a shift towards pharmaceuticals. It might also make the illicit drug dealers pull their thumbs out their arses and turn out a higher quality product.
 
Prescription drugs abused

TORY SHEPHERD | September 22, 2009 12:01am

Anaesthetists wrote in yesterday's Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Bulletin that "naive" doctors need to be more sceptical when patients ask for pain relief.

AdelaideNow

haha! funny coming from anaesthestists......pot calling the kettle black!

and yes, doctors are so naive? so much so that they don't even notice all the kick backs flooding in from Uncle Pfizer ;)
 
Crackdown on painkiller prescriptions

By Chelsea White

Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 EST 2009

USERS of the drug oxycodone will be traced by the police and Medicare under a new plan to try to stamp out the growing black market surrounding the prescription painkiller.

The number of prescriptions for the drug known as "hillbilly heroin" has increased 40-fold since the 1990s, with oxycodone now surfacing on the streets of Sydney and in rural areas as an alternative to heroin.

Oxycodone and drugs like it are also now the most commonly injected drug at the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Kings Cross.

Police say oxycodone is also increasingly being misused in the wider community either by people who became hooked after being prescribed the painkiller, or by those chasing the effects without the stigma of heroin use.

Use of the drug - which has been linked to the deaths of Michael Jackson and Heath Ledger - has also lead to an increase in fraudulent use of stolen prescriptions and multiple doctor visits to get scripts.

Drug Squad commander Detective Superintendent Nick Bingham said users were also targeting oxycodone in armed hold-ups of pharmacies.

"We would never see that before," he said. "I cannot recall when someone has acted just as sinister with another legal drug such as pseudoephedrine".

Supt Bingham said police and Medicare had developed a draft memorandum of understanding to track oxycodone use.

Under the plan - which is expected to come into force by the end of the year - police would share information on known abusers of the drug with Medicare so their requests for prescriptions can be monitored.

Medicare, in turn, would provide police with evidence of a person "doctor shopping" or against doctors believed to be over prescribing.

St Vincent's Hospital alcohol and drug service director Dr Alex Wodak said Australia faced a possible explosion in oxycodone overdose deaths if a multi-agency response was not developed soon.

"There is a very high risk that if present trends continue, we will see within a few years rapidly increasing numbers of young people dying from drug overdose," he said.

The Daily Telegraph
 
^ Anyone who would knock off a pharmacy and go for pseudo over a plethora of benzo's and opiates is retarded imho. Then again its obviously not the super smart types who pull armed robberies.

I am pretty annoyed to see the attention pharms are recieving lately, they have never even taken off properly in Australia and it seems they are doing all they can to stop it from happening. They are cheaper than illegal drugs and quality controlled, pharmaceuticals FTW!
 
^ dunno, a shit load of pseudo can be turned into quite the cash cow!

also having S8's under lock'n'key makes it less attractive
 
I am amazed at how easy Americans are able to obtain oxys for things like back pain and all that when they wouldn't even give me more than six after emergency surgery on my stomach! (And they were only 10mgs which means fuck all). I have never heard of anyone who is able to get their hands on any off dealers either so yeah I'm guessing this is a load of shit, there is no booming oxy black market and if there is then it's probably among very small circles - the kind I'm not apart of! I have heard off one guy I know who said he bought one for $xx which I think was 40 - 80mg... One, this was a few years ago. What a joke.
 
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^ You are not allowed to post prices on here man. Availability discussion isn't allowed either.
 
ive just tidied up this thread a little to take out some of the discussion on; "availability and im getting high posts" as they dont fit the forum guidlines. This is a really important topic to cover and it would be great to keep the discussions going around alternative opiates that people are starting to use instead of heroin.

It also pays to keep in your mind that law enforcement in australia do read this website as you write your replies :) * Waves*
 
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