If you wondered what happened to the man with the 58 pain killers two posts down, you can find an update of what happened at http://www.sptimes.com/2007/08/05/Hillsborough/After_2_years_in_pris.shtml .
If I was prescribed 80 tablets of Vicodin over a period of 8 months I am 100% sure that there would not be ANY pills left. Further I think the people who do take their Vicodin so rarely would not have carried a bottle around in their car. Anyways, the man had a legit prescription so why insist on nailing him after serving 2 years in jail already?
The the charge for drug trafficing would completely mess up his life, the police only needs to catch you with a few pills, and without proof of delivery to anyone, they will lock you up for 25 years if they get a chance!!! It doesn’t seem worth the hassle to buy and sell pain pills. If they found several full bottles of Dilaudid, MSIR, Oxycontin or other stronger prescription drugs things would seem different but this is not the case. The man had a legit script so why? They obviously seemed to be for personal use considering that he did not have a larger quantity with him and the number of tablets was uneven.
The part of this article that suprised me most was:
‘Vicodin, the brand name for the painkiller hydrocodone, is widely prescribed and abused. Prosecutors say a single pill can sell for $40 on the street.’
I know a lot of people who have used and are using Vicodin frequently but I can not think of anyone who would pay $40 per tablet. If people could really earn that much selling Vicodin on the street my guess is that there would be an aweful lot of patients trying to sell their monthly 120 tablets and make $4800 each month by just for selling the pills they get for a fraction online. Teenagers would sell the 10 pills they got from the dentist for $400, nice bonus huh?? The truth is that all patients I know use their meds themselves and I truely believe that the amount of Vicodin tablets sold for $40 per tablet can be counted on one hand.
These are the kind of stories and events that make it harder for legit pain patients to obtain their medications. If a physician would read and believe this information it is no wonder that he/she is unwilling to write more than a few to chronic pain patient looking for some relief…
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