[Lilith]

Oxycontin is a synthetic form of Morphine. By synthetic I mean it's made in a lab not from nature aka the poppy plant. It's highly addictive like Mscontin(Morphine), Vicodin, etc. It's called "Hillybilly Heroin" and for good reason. Most addicts crush it, dilute it down and inject it. I think it's cheaper for paitents so that's why docs prescribe it, hence they get it and then sell the pills *starting at* 5 bucks a tab. The higher the dose the higher the price, usually in increments of $5. How I know, I'm a nurse, deal with these kinds of meds all the time, espacially for cancer paitents, we have to keep them under triple lock and count them from shift to shift. You kinda get an informal education on the street value of these drugs working in the medical profession. I've had friends of friends of friends approach me and offer me hundreds of dollars for one little bottle of Morphine elixer. When I turn them down, they sometimes resort to begging, it's all very sad. These highpower pain meds should be used as a last resort, when nothing else works to relieve pain, IMO, because it's awful to watch someone get an addiction to these drugs and then seek them out all the time.