Oxycodone is not hard to get, nor are any normally prescribed opiates. It also isn't very powerful compared to morphine (about 1.5x as powerful as morphine) That's what gives it the abuse potential. When you get into the really dangerous stuff, like Fentanyl, people start dying as few have portable ventilators to take over when their diaphragms stop working. I worked at the Medical University Hospital here in Charleston in Narcotics for about 3 years, and during that time we had an anaesthesiologist abusing fentanyl whom we caught and basically forced to abandon his residency and a RT stealing morphine from his patient's drips. My understanding is that it is typical for a University hospital to experience a resident death every 4 or 5 years due to Fentanyl. No one knows more about the dangers of these drugs than the anaesthesia people, yet they get dragged in. Whether you like Rush or not, physical addiction is a dangerous and difficult thing. We had to watch the fentanyl like hawks, and we may have saved that guy's life. As far as Rush goes - when you consistently speak out against powerful people and/or the US Government, don't forget how powerful they actually are. Few of us could survive as long as he did under the power of that microscope. It was only a matter of time...

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