Drug Addiction Stories & Info

All narcotics are addictive, and Oxy is no exception. Anyone using ox is at risk of addiction, even when using it just as the doctor prescribed.

Physical and psychological addiction to oxycodone, the principle ingredient of this opioid painkiller can happen to anyone. Using oxy as prescribed does not mean that you won’t become an addict.

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Oxycontin Is Addictive – Just How Addictive Is it?

Ask the many people in Canada, and elsewhere who are turning up in droves to doctors and addiction treatment centers trying to get detox for oxy because it has got a stranglehold on their life.

Although the manufacturer, Purdue Pharma was fined in excess of five hundred million dollars for misrepresenting the “slow release” formulation, and addictive nature of this product; that is like a slap on the wrist in the context of what might be described as complete disregard for human suffering, in the pursuit of the almighty dollar. That a company can pay a fine of $500 million and survive financially is an indication of the money that is being made in the prescription drug trade of North America today.

Despite the fact the manufacturer has responded to the issue by making ox tablets more slow release than they were before, oxycodone still causes the same problem of addiction as before.

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Why is the Addiction of this Prescription Drug So Insiduous?

Oxy addiction is insidious, because people don’t expect it. Prescription users have been offered OC by their doctor as a remedy for chronic or intense pain. Most people will get some kind of a warning – not to tamper with the pills, and to see their doctor straight away if side effects occur. However, addiction is never mentioned explicitly, it is like the elephant in the room. The inference is that only those who misuse their medication will become addicted; if you use oxy as prescribed you will not become an addict.

Opioids historically have been associated with addiction. No one would go into an opium den to get relief from physical pain and not expect addiction. Doctor’s surgeries today are like an Aladdin’s cave – beset with the brightly colored “jewels” of prescription medications – a source of prescription opium.

Neatly packaged, and marketed as Roxicodone, OxyNorm, Oxyfast, OxyIR, by Perdue Pharma, or Percocet aka Tylox, and Percodan by Endo Pharma, the analgesic opioid oxycodone comes into our life. It is a powerful CNS depressant, and any amount has a capacity to disturb the chemical function of our body.

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Other Side Effects of Oxycodone

Constipation is such a common toxic side effect of oxycodone use that a laxative is usually provided to go with the oxy prescription. Oxycodone use also constipates the brain – but in a mind stressed with tension and worry, such a condition can feel like release. Often it is only close family and friends who can see the effects of oxycodone use on the mind of the regular user. Lethargy, stupor, and sometimes irritability replace clear cognitive function, motor skills and co-ordination diminish, to an extent that people should not drive, or operate machinery under the influence of oxy. Many OC users have such levels of impairment and loss of healthy function that for all intents and purposes, they might as well be living in an opium den.

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The Alternatives

What people need to know today is not that oxy is addictive, but what alternatives are available, to avoid becoming a victim of OxyContin addiction. The answer is to avoid drug use, and to discover comprehensive methods for natural pain relief.

If you are addicted, get drug-free and detoxed at a natural and  effective rehab center such as Narconon, and regain control of your life. For a natural OxyContin addiction Treatment Center, call 1-877-782-7409 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1-877-782-7409 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

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For more news and information about prescription drug addictions you can visit Narconon-news.org.

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You always want your child to be safe. If he is in a fight, you want him to come out of it okay. What if the person your son is fighting is his brother? That’s a biggie. That’s a hard one. That’s the one where there is no way to support one without hurting the other. That’s what drugs will do 

One gets high on crack and throws something across the room, hitting a friend accidentally. His brother jumps up and yells at him to chill out and act like a man. Suddenly they are both fighting each other. How does that happen? Are these the same two young men who grew up so close in age and looks that people often mistook them for twins? Are these the same two who joined a baseball team together and wandered the halls of high school more like best friends instead of brothers?

So what happened? One night the older one got messed up on crack after work with a couple of buddies from the fast food joint he worked at. He felt such a euphoric rush, he wanted to experience it again. And again. And again.

He hid it for a bit but his brother found out. Then his parents. Then his mood swings got bad as the addiction came to stay. He became increasingly paranoid and violent when he was in need of a fix. He had thrown a lamp across the room because the friend had refused to loan him some money to go get some crack.

A fight between two young men turns rough and violent and bloody. One yells he can’t understand where the brother went to that he grew up with while the other tells him to try the crack sometime and he would understand. The mother steps in and gets knocked in the face, causing a greater fight.

She breaks down in tears and they stop. Somehow, some way, he sees that his mother has been hurt because of his addiction. He cries out “I’m sorry” as he sinks down beside her. Right then and there he promises to get help. She picks up the phone on the end table and hands it to him. “Do it now.”

He calls the local rehab center. He doesn’t even question why or how his mother knows the phone number by heart. Arrangements are made and she and her younger son drive the older one over to the treatment center.

How do I know this? It was us. My husband was at work that day four years ago when my sons got into their argument. Today, they are close again. I’ll never forget that day, though, when things had to hit rock bottom before my son got help.