OxyContin Addicts: Do What It Takes to Feed Addiction

Can someone in Tampa please tell the man in the blond wig, stealing OxyContin at gunpoint, that there are easier ways to address his drug addiction?  While we all pretty much understand that OxyContin is incredibly addictive, this is going a little too far.

Narconon Drug Rehab in Georgia warns that once addicted, drug addicts can and will do anything to feed their drug addiction. “Opiate addicts become so dependent on the drug that they cannot function without it,” comments Mary Rieser, Executive Director of Narconon Drug Rehab in Georgia. “Can you imagine not being able to get up and go to work because your bones hurt, you are hit with stomach cramps, your whole body hurts? And it goes away instantly with a little heroin or OxyContin? Drug addiction is like that.”

As odd as this man’s method is of feeding his habit, he represents an ever growing population of individuals addicted to OxyContin.  Finding themselves impossibly addicted with nowhere to turn, these newly created pharmaceutical drug addicts are becoming clever when it comes to getting their Oxys.

Detective Lisa Haber from Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay comments on the obsession most OxyContin addicts have: "Their abuse takes over, and they become desperate to obtain drugs that they're addicted to, and that's why they're dangerous."

Feigning injuries, hitting the streets looking for dealers and becoming proficient at online pharmaceutical buys are just some of the methods that these desperate individuals are turning to. That man in the blond wig could easily be one’s grandmother or the head of the local PTA. OxyContin addiction stalks through all walks of life, knowing no social or class barrier and anyone who puts one OxyContin tablet in their mouth is fair game.

Not unlike Dr. Frankenstein’s efforts to find the elixir of life, OxyContin’s promise to be the miracle drug providing pain relief without addiction has created monsters who are as personally unhappy as they are scary to the rest of us.

OxyContin addiction requires more and more of the drug just to avoid the severe discomfort of withdrawal – a discomfort that obviously some want to avoid at all costs.  When Oxy addiction turns one into a monster that carries a gun, the villagers are not to not understand and will happily cart the monster away to the county jail.  Eventually, to live at all, the man in the blond wig or any other Oxy addicts is going to have to get effective drug treatment.

And they have to know that there really is effective drug treatment that can help with OxyContin that puts an end to their suffering.

There is such a treatment program and it is call Narconon - the New Life Program.

"If you know someone who is abusing drugs get them into rehab. Don’t count on them to do it themselves – they need your help."

For information on drug addiction signs, call Narconon Drug Rehab in Georgia at 1-877-413-3073
      
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