This is a good start. These pills are ruining so many lives.

I broke my foot about 3 years ago and they gave me a prescription for Oxycodone. I didn't fill it, figuring strong pain killers would make me tired and/or loopy, and I didn't have time for sitting around doing nothing. As it turned out, ice was fine for a few days, and honestly, the pain wasn't that bad. When I came back in for an x-ray a month later, they offered Oxy to me again. By that point, I had no pain. 

My mom has been on Oxy daily for over a decade for fibromyalgia. Her mind and bod are fried! And she refuses to believe she's addicted to anything. She isn't that old and should have a good quality of life, but she's basically just a crazy drug addict. And some fool keeps writing the prescriptions.