Still There said:
The problem now is not recreational drugs that's an old thing anymore. "Everyone uses them" - not me or most or all of you don't. The real problem is the prescription drugs. My very best friend just lost her 49 year old brother to overdose of prescription drugs about a month ago. He was given a legal prescription for 112 oxycotin, 30 xanax and something else, by a physician. This was on a Thursday. By Friday afternoon he was dead. Why in the world would a doctor give that much powerful medication and not think this guy would do something like that!!! When they found him late in the afternoon all 3 bottles were empty. 172 pills taken in less than 24 hours of given the prescription. No one questioned why he took that powerful of a medication - especially all 3. That is the new "drug" now. Marijuana is the old drug, you can get that anywhere, cocaine and meth is still dangerous, but when you can go to a licensed doctor and say I hurt and they give you 112 oxycotin and 30 xanax and your insurance pays for it, that's the latest high, and selling it on the street is even better, you can get good bucks for that.
30 Xanax alone will kill you. You don't need the other drugs.
But the problem there was suicide, not the drugs. I have to assume it was either suicide or extreme idiocy. Nobody takes 30 Xanax (not to mention the other drugs) to get high.
Many years ago, my doctor prescribed Xanax for me. He told me I could take up to 6 in one day. I didn't realize he meant spread out over the day, so I took 6 at once. I didn't get high. I slept for 20 hours.
