As the grass-roots movement heats up to ban OxyContin, the opioid painkiller implicated in thousands of deaths, people addicted the drug from all levels of society, from cities, towns and villages, continue to search for effective OxyContin detox and rehabilitation.
Every day of the week across America, in communities large and small, hundreds of people are falling victim to
OxyContin addiction, and the OxyContin death toll continues to grow.
OxyContin addiction and it’s thousands of related deaths don’t just happen in big-city drug houses and back alleyways. A survey of local newspapers, local radio and TV news broadcasts, and home-town newspapers, reveal a terrible toll from this dangerous drug. OxyContin addiction and death is hitting cities, towns and even rural communities across the country. Not a day goes by without stories of OxyContin addictions, deaths, injuries, arrests and ruined lives.
And a glance at the news also tells us that the countless tragedies connected to OxyContin addiction -- many as a result of legal prescriptions, not just illicit abuse -- are happening to people from all walks of life. Celebrities, professionals, students, seniors, rich and poor -- OxyContin addiction plays no social or age favorites.
OxyContin is almost identical to heroin, and creates identical effects on a user’s body. This is the reason thousands of OxyContin addicts also wind up abusing heroin. It is also why so many heroin addicts reach for OxyContin as a substitute when they can’t get heroin. Heroin and OxyContin are both terribly addictive, but an OxyContin addiction is even more difficult to kick than heroin!
This situation raises an obvious question: If heroin is illegal, why is OxyContin legal? As any sensible person can see, there is no sensible answer to this question.
Hundreds of such stories, from surviving family members of the victims of OxyContin addiction are being briefly shared, on a very personal and intense level, on a new website where thousands of people are signing a petition to
ban OxyContin.
The sponsors of the petition hope to gather enough signatures to make a meaningful presentation to the Food and Drug Administration later this year. There are other painkillers just as effective as OxyContin at controlling chronic pain, that do not share OxyContin’s abysmal record of addiction, abuse and death. Thousands of Americans who have already signed the petition believe it is time for the FDA to take the heroin substitute, OxyContin, off the market.
According to the statement on the Ban OxyContin web site, by signing this petition we are asking the FDA to ban the distribution of OxyContin to new patients, and to create “a compassionate program to be put in place for the people who are presently taking OxyContin, with a realistic time frame that will lead to the complete withdrawal of OxyContin.”
By banning the deadly narcotic painkiller OxyContin from the marketplace, thousands of people will be spared the expense and interruptions of
OxyContin detox and drug rehab programs. And the lives of thousands of real people, everywhere in America, will be saved.
