On my way home from the Orlando, Fl. National Rx Drug Abuse Summit, as we stood on the security checkpoint line, I got chatting with a woman next to me, a nurse. Not surprisingly, in Orlando, the conversation starter is “What brings you to Disneyworld?” In my case, it was the Rx epidemic. During the course …
The “Candy Man” (an unoriginal moniker for certain) supplied OxyContin, Vicodin, Norco and other drugs to addicts with no legitimate need for the powerful narcotics. Some of his customers paid him in sex. Some diverted the pills to the black market. At least twelve of them since 2006 suffered fatal overdoses, including one man who …
Since the release of my book, and the launch of this website, I have met the most interesting people from all walks of life and from all angles of this rx drug issue. Two of the people I met are the inventors/promoters of a product reflecting cutting edge technology applied to an old fashioned concept: …
Do you keep, or have you kept, drugs where your kids or other members of your household can get them? Let’s play a little Q & A game that I like to call: “My Kid Would Never…” Question #1: Have you ever filled a doctor’s prescription for a painkiller? Question #2: Have you ever put …