Word: oxycontin
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Then the National Enquirer ran a story about a claim made by Wilma Cline, Limbaugh's former housemaid at his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion, that for four years, beginning in 1998, she illegally supplied him with vast quantities of the prescription drugs OxyContin, hydrocodone and Lorcet. She also claims that Limbaugh went through detox twice in New York during that time to break the habit. Cline, 42, has given audiotapes and other purported evidence to the state's attorney's office of Palm Beach County, and Limbaugh is now a subject of investigation, a source close to the investigation confirmed...
...Perhaps the dearth of opportunities to buy heroin online is directly traceable to the spectacular popularity and widespread availability of Oxycontin, an even more addictive opiate painkiller which, until very recently, was barely regulated...
...Online "pharmacies" are everywhere; the domestic operations offer a limited number of relatively harmless prescription medications (including Viagra and the hair-loss drug Propecia), others (primarily Mexican) providing a larger selection, ranging from antidepressants to highly addictive opiates such as Oxycontin. Other big sellers: methadone, codeine, testosterone and anabolic steriods. It's breathtakingly easy to log on, pick a drug and place an order - all without the pesky inconvenience of a doctor's appointment. I quickly discovered that if I were interested, I could order thousands of dollars' worth of addictive opiates and see them land on my doorstep...
...OXYCONTIN...
...seemed like the perfect drug, a time-released synthetic opiate that killed pain without making users high. But soon after OxyContin hit the market, sales became suspiciously brisk. Drug abusers had discovered that they could get a heroin-like buzz by crushing the pills before they took them. Almost overnight, OxyContin became the drug of choice on city streets and in the suburbs; it has now been linked to 300 deaths. As the drug skates between success and excess, the manufacturer has come under increased scrutiny for its aggressive marketing campaign...