Comments on: Atypical Drugs of Abuse

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:40:51 +0000

That is soo true they take your lisence for all the controlled substances there should be something that pops up in the computer when one person has had over a certain amount of prescriptions

By: legitpt

legitpt — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:40:08 +0000

The thing that bugs me is I have a legitimate pain problem documented by more than one dr. And when I end up going to the hospital due to the “weak” medication im on not actually working i get treated like a f*#@ing criminal and made to wait for an extrodinary amount of time before the er dr will actually do anything. Thanks.

By: angelanok

angelanok — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:23:28 +0000

The problem is that police do not do anything about prescription drug abuse. I have personally tried to get the police to do something when my ex husband was buying prescription medication illegally. I went to the chief of police in my area and gave them names, addresses and numbers to people who were selling these medications, but I was told that they (the police) were not concerned with prescription drugs because it was hard to get a conviction. It is just the same ol’ same ol’ for my area. But it is frustrating that they do nothing.

By: gary

gary — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:07:09 +0000

this whole discusion is stupid do you ppl not realise that a portion of the population going to abuse drugs FOREVER! always will be ppl that want to alter the’re state of mind this will will be true FOREVER ppl!! its never going to stop. that being said the problem is the very fact that the gov has made them illegal thats where all the lying cheating stealing springs from! the very fact that they are ‘controled’!the gov is so afraid that ppl will get high that they would rather give posion to you for pain than morphine. i can see it now ‘ hey look we found this great drug that kills pain better than morphine and you cant get high on it! oh but it does destroys your liver,”FDA” APPROVED APROVEDAPPRVED!!! you ppl are fucing stupid you will always have people that chose to abuse drugs and those that wont it doesn’t matter if you give the death penitaly for drug possion then you just have a bunch of dead ppl to bury.wake up.

By: Veteran

Veteran — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:57:58 +0000

I noticed above, people supporting drug abuse……guess what, I see most of you are open on this web-site, so do the same in the open 24/7, and quit faking, lieing to the doctors, quit buying from your local pushers to get your prescription drugs of choice, if you feel what your doing is right, then be all out in the open with it, so that people that live with chronic pain are not punished for your actions.

By: Veteran

Veteran — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:41:34 +0000

Its very sad that people abuse drugs, the real sad part is that the abusers lie, fake pain, and lie to their doctors. This makes the lives of people like myself that deal with chronic 24/7 pain pure hell, my pain has gone from not being treated to being under treated. Yes I have all the MRI’s, X-rays, all the scars that go along with being injured serving my country.I stand in lines-long waiting list, and have to complain about not being treated, even asked for alternatives – therapy, thats another story.
So it does not matter if they make “punish chronic pain patients” it difficult for people in real pain to obtain pain medication, because now the next wave of drugs like gabapentin, prozacs, zoloft, etc the abusers are already abusing them

By: christine

christine — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:24:05 +0000

Nerontin…never knew that it could be used as a high or any of the things referenced….I have Arachnoditis with centralized neuropathy, sorry for spelling and typos…having rough time just had another fall this time awaking in a pool of blood, just busted lip, concussion, moving up date on knee replacement but gotta wait for swelling on my brain….abuse??? How’s about survival?? each fall or injury just steps up pain and noise in Ur head…you want to be anywhere but in your head or between Ur ears…it’s like being in the middle of a riot and life just is unbearable…water is the best DRUG, ever created, the relief is unreal….wish I could abuse meds to get high and escape all the pain…the cocktails just mask at times the war going on with the nerves and damaged signals in nervous system….it would be easy to take more but fixes nothing, pain is a constant unwelcome companion…what options does a doc have then…shrugged their shoulders give a hug and wish the patient well as they leave with a hand-full of Rx’s to try and survive…your experience is within prisons…what about Arachniditis patients that are imprisoned without any crime or trial for justification or cause??? trying to survive….

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:55:18 +0000

Darn it, it’s people like you who have driven our society to the point it is in right now. If it weren’t for people like you MDMA would pmost probably still be legal, I don’t understand what the problem with you is, if you don’t like the recreational use of drugs, then so be it don’t use them. But just because your lactose intolerant doesn’t mean I shouldn’t drink milk.

By: Jennieloo

Jennieloo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:04:36 +0000

Where did this information come from? Was it from inmates or patients or from somewhere else?

By: RN in NC

RN in NC — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:44:42 +0000

When I read this article it really hit home. My mother was diagnosed with fibromyalgia 7 years ago. She doctor hopped for years trying to find a physician to prescribe her the meds she wanted. She has been abusing oxycontin for years, to the point of even crushing and snorting it. I have had to have involuntarily committed 3 times in the last year for this as she had and still remains a threat to herself and others. She was recently taken off of oxycontin, detoxed for 4 days and sent home. She then began talking more than her prescribed dosage of Neurontin, Klonopin, and Trileptal in conjunction with alcohol. She is prescribed to take 900mg of Neurontin 3x/day, 2 mg Klonopin 4x/day, and 600 mg Trileptal per day. She had marked drowsiness, slurred speech, an unsteady gait and slept for 16+ hours per day. When she wasn’t sleeping she was violent and physical and verbally assaulted my father as well as verbally assaulting myself, my sisters, and elderly mother. Her Klonopin level was within normal parameters and the rest of her tox screen was negative. Which leads me to believe Emily’s article does have merit as addicts can and will abuse anything to achieve the same “high”. My final thought is, if you have no knowledge of the topic of which you are speaking, then you need to do your own research before negating the research of someone else. A wise man speaks because he has something to say, but a fools speaks because he HAS to say something.”