Sign this petition to ban Oxycontin
BanOxycontin.com Bracelet Information Petition | View Signatures | Help Ban Oxycontin | Supporters

PETITION TO BAN OXYCONTIN

5675 Current Signatures

 
Name Comments
anonamys Ban this garbage. It is rouining lives all over. Too many friends hooked and commiting crimes for this man made heroin. Stop this madness PLEASE 
Anonymous The devils dandruff is not only the most ileagle drug I have encountered in my life;It is trying to finish me off by taking my life.You can go see the doctor and turn around and your script is at the next window.When this drug takes my life I want the drug company and the doctors to pay to raise my son and daughter.Actually I WANT THEM TO PAY FOR MY BILLS AND MY DETOX.I could send anyone tell them how to do it and you will leave with 2000 worth of drugs just promise me you wont take them.  
Mark Young Rest in peace to my best friend SAMMY CHEEK YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN and rest in peace to a good friend J DOGG miss you man i will always have ur kids back just like i told you when you were next to me i would kill for alysha .Just cause ur gone that has not change. My uncle is doing 25 years in federal prison for selling the drug yes i miss my uncle but just think of sammys parents you will never see there son because of people like my uncle. 
Donald Andersen  
maura rohan my brother got a prescription for oxycontin for a ripped rotator cuff, now he is addicted to heroin--BAN oxycontin!!!! 
michael roo My son is holessly addicted to this evil drug and is now in jail for prescription fraud. He has been addicted for four years after recieving legal prescription for a minor injury. This drug if as advertised was designed for terminal and chronic pain then why has it been prescribed for toothaches and sprained ankles. From 2005 to today the gross sale of opiate based pills has tripled to 6.5 billion dollars. The executives of these companies shuold be given the same consideration as Pablo Escubar by the D.E.A. and hunted down and eliminated. They are the same, nothing more than drug dealers except this current cartel pays taxes and lobbiests. The drug should be eliminated or at the very least dipensed only in a hospital setting. These executives are fully aware of why sales have tripled it is not because cancer has all of a sudden tripled or other chronic pain causes it is because like the tobaco cartel their plan of marketing the most addictive product on earth is working! 
Sarah White  
Joan Miller I lost my son Ted on May 16,2009. He was 28 and had just finished getting a degree in accounting. He worked full time while attending school and had taken pills to stay awake and to get sleep. He enjoyed drinking on the weekend and his friends were with him partying at their house. Somewhere he got an Oxy and cut it in half. His friend found him and he was not breathing and was taken to the hospital. His friend called and said that Teddy was in a coma. The minute I saw him I knew that he was dead. He was an exceptional person. When he was interested in something he gave it 100%. He had many talents: artistic, liked playing the guitar, Photography, athletic ( his passion was snowboarding). I will never forget that call. My precious son was gone and my life would never be the same. I cannot believe he is gone and have difficulty dealing with everyday life. Teddy, I love you and you will always be in my heart. It was not fair and my life will never be the same. Mom  
vicky parker  
ANGELA GRAHAM i have a son , that is recovering from this addiction also a nephew and just lost a good friend to the horrible pills. TAKE THEM OFF THE MARKET EXCEPT FOR DYING PATIENTS THAT CAN'T STAND THE PAIN ANY LONGER 
Jennifer E. Vaughn I have had family members addicted to this drug. I a pharmicutical manufacturing company, in Hunstville,Al. That employees are stealing, and then selling on the streets. We also lost a good friend to the family last year, st the age of 34 years old, he left behind a daughter which he had full custody that was 3 years of age at the time. This was is North East Florida. 
Evan David Beattie  
Belol I love oxycontin it's so good but I've suffered 4 years of addiction because of painkillers there needs too be an alternative 
Wendy Lloyd Prison may have saved the lives of my two sons addicted to OxyContin. Ban it! 
phil legace  
Diana L Lyons My heart goes out to everyone who has been touched by the terrible devastation produced by this poison we all know someone who is either in the throes of addiction or dead.Enough! until when will this stop?  
Julene Nichols Oxycontin abuse has reached epidemic porportion in my community and many surrounding areas. My child became addicted and many of his friends have become addicted, lives have been ruined and many lives have been lost as a direct result of Oxycontin. GET IT OFF THE MARKET!!!  
angela carpenter  
Denise Friel I am helpless as a mother of a 29 year old son, married with 2 beautiful children. You have to sit back and watch this monster take over not only the addicts life buy yours as well. This trash needs to be banned. I hope someday I will have my son back. 
Pam Ostlund  
rebecca katnik  
Kim Box Oxycontin must be banned - we have legalized dealing drugs with Oxycontin - it is killing our kids and loved ones!!!!! 
Anonymous My heart goes out to those addicted, and their families. This is such a tragedy and should be made illegal because of its addictive qualities and ability to destroy people.  
PATRICIA MINK As long as people can make a good living running from doctor to doctor to get prescriptions so they can take a few pills and sell a few pills lives and families will continue to be destroyed.  
Alisa Cejas  
Anonymous  
Darcie Clark  
Roger Mendez This drug has ruined lives and took lives....this drug should be banned..because of this my brother is hooked and might be heading to prison. yes its true people are responsible for their own lives but at the same time america shoud be responsible for not producing drugs that may harm people, i know countless people who are not even addicts and was prescribed this complain that they will never take it again....ban it 
Susan Morrison OxyContin has triggered a epidemic of Herion addiction with in my community and my county. My 21 year old son is living on the streets addicted to Heroin and I know too many stories of other young and old people suffering from addiction. If banning this product can decrease the epidemic, I am in!! My deep concern is how much devistation it is already caused and how can we help the large number of people currently suffering it's effects.  
Justina M Moore  
Creighton B Reed  
Jennifer Erickson  
Anonymous I've recently learned that a friend's death was due to an overdose of Oxycontin. Researching what this drug is has led me to the obvious question: why on earth is Purdue Pharma being allowed to sell junk legally? And why are doctors who overprescribe it still allowed to keep their licenses? I have to provide ID and my purchase is entered in a database when I go to buy pseudoephedrine, so there's no possible argument that prescribers and recipients of oxycontin cannot be tracked. 
Elizabeth Willson  
Jacqueline My sister had surgery on her ankle and thumb after a fall on stairs in her apartment building. Her "Doctor" was not only prescribing her 3 80 mg tablets of OxyContin daily for months before she died from taking it, but also her girlfriend, who had, had NO reason to be taking it whatsoever. When I went to my sister's apartment to gather some of her things from one coast to the other, I discovered original prescriptions written for 2 months each for my sister AND her room mate, by the same Doctor on the same day. This Doctor travels around speaking at medical conventions on "ethics" and humanitarianism. She was asked by my Mother about WHY she prescribed deadly amounts of this medication to my sister AND her room mate. He answer was... "well? she said she was in pain" I've since been chasing her all around. She went from CA to Mexico then she took her practice to NY. I've written to her asking her to contact me, because I wanted to understand WHY she would do this. She's never answered. So I'm now reporting her to the medical board. The documentation is overwhelming. My sister never needed that medication. If she would have, the surgeon would have prescribed it, but they stopped after a couple of weeks of the medication (OxyContin) Her regular "Doctor" continued to prescribe it to both of the girls. In HUGE amounts. I would love to sue the ass off of that Doctor, but it seems it's nearly impossible to get attorneys for this. I would think with all of these drug lawyers who sniff out drugs to sue companies over, this would be top on the list, but it looks like those lawyers just have no interest... go figure Ban this shit, it's scary and needless to say deadly. 
arthur davis  
patricia goodwin There are better choices for patients being developed to control pain without the risk of becoming addicted to such a powerful and enticing drug! 
Anonymous Know friends that have lost loved ones by accidental over doses. 
jaclyn christman  
Jennifer Moss  
Kristen Korneliussen  
Toni Albright I would sign this over one hundred times over again if it would help.I have lost a love one to this drug and seen too many people around me lose love ones as well. It is a horrible drug and should not be sold to anyone.I know it has left my 2 children without a father and for everyone else who has lost someone my heart goes out to you.  
Toni Albright  
Anonymous This drug is the devil.....it kills, it rips families apart, it makes the addict do things they normally would never think about doing. The hurt and heartbreak caused by this drug is so overwhelming. I know that alot of people that are legally prescribed the oxy don't use all of it themselves, they sell it on the street and make good tax free money. The ones that take their first pill for that "high" that they are seeking never have a clue how this drug is going to pull them in. My daughter, after a three year addiction stated "I don't take them to get high, I take them to feel normal....it was a maintenance issue after the inital addiction. Only people that are dying should ever be prescribed this drug and only in very monitored ways to help keep them off the street. My daughter was taking so many per day that she couldn't even get accepted into a detox center. Thank God....I still have her. For three long years, there was no light at the end of the tunnel. BAN, BAN, BAN it.....buck up and accept some of the pain, there are other things on the market that don't addict a person this badly! 
Aaron Woodward It has been over a year now since Matt Bloom died from an oxycontin addiction. We love you and miss you. Rest in Peace. 
John Olson  
Robby  
amber i just want this drug banned . i miss my uncle Jeremy & uncle Sambo so much i love yall with all my heart . 
Sarah Anthony  
SARAH IVE SEEN MY MOTHER A NURSE DROP FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM. NOW CLEAN FOR OVER 8 YEARS AND ON HER WAY BACK TO THE TOP, I THANK GOD EVEYDAY FOR HER STRENGHTH TO GET BETTER...MY THOUGHTS TO ALL WHO LOST A LOVED ONE TO THIS PROBLEM, OR ANYONE STILL GOING THROUGH IT. 
Anonymous When will the Pharmaceutical Industries realize that all these lives are more important than their bottom line?  
Julia Zuniga Thank you for taking the steps to take this horrible drug off the market. Oxycontin has distroyed and continues to distroy lives everyday. I have witnessed great people with endless potential throw their lives away, and it need to stop. Send out and have your friends sign this petition! -Julia Zuniga 
Kathryn Cadmus  
calleigh myers  
Sherry My son is addicted to Roxicodone and i am so scared that he is goint to go to sleep and never wake up. i want oxycontin and roxicodone off of the streets. Flordia is where most of the pills are coming from.  
Debra Martino OxyContin is a money maker for the greedy...And it is Killing our children "who are our future"... Wake up America- Our Children Are Dying!!!! 
Sherri One small step forward in support of all those who suffer addiction themselves and for the families and friends who love them. 
Erin Myers This is a serious problem that congress must look into, seriously how many more lives must come to an end? 
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
Ilana Eisler  
Nathan Brown  
Dawnmarie Montauredes  
wijlliam lewis this drug is bullshit it is killing a lot of people who do not know how powerful it is . get rid of it! 
Drew Beahm  
chris collins  
monica cutolo  
George L Recovering addict, too many of my friends have died because of opiates. Recovery is the hardest thing I ever had to go through in my life.  
Mandi Fuccillo  
Dena Hutto My now ex husband gained a horrible addiction to this terrible drug due to irresponsible doctors. The perscription was handed out like candy to a 20 something year old who showed clear sings of addiction. When he could no longer afford the prescription he was given a direct discount straigt from the drugs manufacturer. It totally consumed his life nearly killing him on several occassions. Our marraige ended as a result of this addiction fearing for the saftey of our children. We lost our home and everything. The drug continued to be a problem even when several people he knew passed away from overdosing. Possibly a blessing in disguise he was caught obtaining with fradulant prescriptions and is currently between jail and treatment centers. I think this is the only reason he is alive today. On a more tragic note is that the kids have had a hard time dealing with the trauma of an addict father. My son refuses to speak to him and the once happy "daddy's girl" has seen her father less then 20 times in the past two years and is a total emotional wreck who will never know anything about how good her father once was. I now struggle raising them on my own with no support. Now in their teens I can only pray that they take the experiences they have had and no to stay away when this "everywhere" drug is presented to them. This drug is a true hell on earth. 
Anonymous Please ban oxycontin it is killing our society at an alarming rate 
max m fighting the addiction 
Reedu Taha Wood  
Anonymous This drug is evil it must be taken off the market it is ruining lives.  
Anonymous This drug has destroyed THOUSANDS of lives!! I've had many loved loves ones affected by this horrific drug. Please, let's put an end to it!!! 
Danielle Dudley  
kristye. marie Stop the madness  
Amanda Leavy My Aunt was a beatiful person, so full of life and desire to inspire. She had the best voice you could of imagend. She was my best friend. When she had her Son something happend during labor and she had to have back surgery.The Doctor prescribed her Oxycotton and all went down hill from there. She started complaining of pain that may have been there but not to the extent that they were just for another pill. As time went on the Doctors just kept giving her more and more. in my opion it was more money for them. As time went on things would seem like they were going for the better, she got her ged, started college, got a job with the college and moved on her own with her son but the good would only last for a short time. The addiction found it's way back in her life. On Febuary 26th while my Aunt should of been getting her son ready for school she wasn't. He wakes up woundering why it's sunny outside and why his Mom hasn't woken him up yet. He starts to get ready on his own by going to the bathroom where he found his Mothers lifeless body laying on the floor thanks to an addiction that started with being pescribed Oxycotton. I beleive that nobody should be percribed something as strong as oxycotton. They may have pain when some incident happens but they will never to be able to accept when that pain is over with because they are so dependent on these drugs they are being percribed that can't stand going through the withdrawl part of it. These people don't want to live like this, it's a diseize in its own that for some people there is no cure like my Aunt.  
Leonard Sullivan  
Jennifer Todero  
Kevin Kongslie  
Anonymous  
Christine  
Krystal Carbonell Too many kids are dying. 
Alysha Cheek REST IN PEACE ; Jeremy Cheek ; Daddy & Sammy Cheek ; Uncle . Miss you guys . 
Kathy Smith  
Toni M I know too many young people who have lost their lives to this drug... its a horrible drug! 
Sara T In honor of my late..one of my BEST friends..Gregory Joseph Ross. Taken from us too soon. This prescription drug SHOULD be banned!!! My friend Greg took the drug and mixed it w alcohol..to catch a buzz. I'm sure he bought it off someone he thought was a "friend". He should still be alive..but bc someone who was PRESCRIBED THE DRUG SOLD IT TO SOMEONE WHO WASN'T..my friend is dead. And yet on the other hand...my son's grandfather was prescribed the drug bc he was in pain from a hospitalization. He WAS A NIGHTMARE to deal w because he was poppin' so many pills..thinking it was right because thats what the DOCTOR told him. Finally with his children and wife having enough they got him to ditch the prescription and find another method to dealing with pain. Parents...talk to your children about recreational use of prescription meds. Its is more common in your local high school then smoking pot that's for sure. BAN OXYs!!!!!  
Michael Smith  
Vanessa Pralle My cousin died from oxycotin. Ban it, please! 
Anna Betz  
Shannon O'Connor  
Stephen Curtin This drug has stolen the hearts and lives of many good friends. They arent bad people, just those who have pain and need a way to deal with it. My best friend overdosed yesterday. Doctors are not responisble in the prescribing of this drug? When I was using a dealer of mine doctor shopped 17 different doctors a month. How can this continue.. 
Anonymous I live in a town called Jupiter, Florida. Jupiter is the beginning of Palm Beach County. Palm Beach County along with it's neighboring county, Broward is swarmed with people snorting, smoking & shooting OxyContin/Roxycodone. I have seen first hand, people begging for $10 just to get one pill only to than put it on a peice of tin foil and smoke it through a straw. My friend (Whos name will be left out) had a boyfriend who would steal her tampons to smoke out of the applicator. I see a problem here, what do you think?!  
Amy A  
Anonymous OxyContin is a seriously dangerous drug. People die from it all the time, and innocent lives are ruined. This needs to stop! 
Heather Benson  
Rachel Crawford-Fisher I know someone who used to do OxyContin, and now is addicted to dope because it's cheaper. It's an absolute shame, and we either need to get a better handle of the types of prescriptions we prescribe people, or ban them entirely. 
Whitney Mazur  
Charlene Bridgeman Oxy Cotin has ruined my sons life and he almost lost his arm, please take it off the market NOW 
Kristine Geiss My heart goes out to all the families who have lost loved ones. This subject hits home with me in more ways then one. 
Susan Ceravolo  
Francesca Gonzalez-Roel  
Krysta M. Brown I have lost family and friends to this. Please outlaw these and all generic forms. 
Lori Santoyo JUST SAY NO!!!! 
Anonymous  
Meghann Covais  
Lucy please its killing my husband  
Suzanne Rippel  
Robert O Your show kicks ass Larry g keep going after them  
Kirby Quackenbush I just recently found out about my husbands addiction to oxycontins and shortly after that came to realize how many of the others around him whom I thought were clean functioning people were addicted aswell. This pill is a nightmare and will destroy the lives of anyone it touches. I pray to God its taken off the market and off of the streets for good! 
Anonymous  
Vikyat Miryala  
Sean McMahon I've known to many people who have had their lives destroyed by Roxies. It takes them over, they lose weight, turn into little fiends. My city is plagued with them. How is it that things that are essentially harmless like marijuana is illegal but opiates are so common and legal. 
Sarah Rippel I lost my uncle to this drug.... 
Anonymous  
kayleigh arena  
Melissa Van Dusen  
Ashley baker I feel they should be bcuz they have caused so many deaths and my bf is addicted and I hate seeing him like he is it's horrible I hope this does some good bcuz I don't think anyone deserves to die over doing something that they think fixing something, it's a quick fix for a lifetime problem. 
Anonymous  
Billy Boyd  
Kelly Roy  
Anonymous Anything so powerful to get a person hooked to a point of severe illness or to cause even death should never be approved by the FDA. I'm doing this for my son who doesn't know that I know he's trying to get off this horrid drug and going through hell while doing it; I'm very proud of him for realizing that he had a serious problem and taking action to get help before it's too late. Please, please ban this awful drug! 
Michelle Sakowicz I have seen what this drug can do to a person. It's unfortunate that those who actually need it have to be punished, but this pill is way too dangerous to keep around. 
Kraig Thurner  
Anonymous  
Susan O'Connor I had heard stories about OxyContin but until my friend's brother in law recently took his own life I never thought much about this drug. Having suffered from back problems and eventually having surgery I thank god that my doctor never prescribed OxyContin. Most people including myself assume if your doctor prescribes a medication it must be ok. Not anymore. I will research all medications that my doctor prescribes. I am just sorry that this man was given something for his pain that eventually lead to his untimely death. I only hope that the FDA bans this medication and helps those who are currently addicted.  
Anonymous this drug is making my family fall apart . 
Jim Pergolizzi PLEASE - ban this drug!!! It is killing people!!  
Bridget Dick  
CRYSTAL WOODS  
Brian Sprinkle This drug truly must be stopped. It is destroying many of my friends and turning people with wonderful personalities into sleepwalking zombies. It seems as though so many young people around me are into this drug here in south florida. It must be banned in order to help so many and save so many lives. Thank you for whoever started this petition. 
Lynn Reeves These doctors got my daughter addicted to pain pills. They need to go to jail for the rest of their lives. Being a doctor they took the oath to help people and these pill mill doctors just don't care who they destroy. Please gan Oxycontin. 
Kristi Manutai The use of OxyContin has absolutely become an epidemic in our society. Sadly, adults who have become addicted, eventually seek stronger more effective street drugs, selling their prescription of OxyContin to our young teens. The statistics have proven that the power of this drug within a short time will take a once innocent victim and turn them into an addict. This drug is so strong, it turn beautiful people into cheating, lying, pathetic, lifeless, drug seeking individuals. How sad it is that we charged the manufacturer several million dollars in fines, but have neglected to remove this fatal drug from society.  
Richard Sundry  
Suzanne R. This is for you, Danny.  
Debra Rincon Lopez I have seen far too many people addicted to Oxycontin in the past 15 yrs now. Especially friend's and family. Plus hundred's of young people in the area. I have seen a new person everyday robbing a Pharmacy here in Portland Oregon of Oxycontin's. This need's to stop asap, before there's another generation of addicts. I am on methadone myself and the clinic I attend is filling up everyday with young people who are addicted to Oxycontin pills. It's appalling and I don't understand how this happened. I have severe pain in my knee's and I can't even get a pain pill if my life depended on it? So, I don't understand how all these young people are getting these pills from, it's need's to stop now, today, THERE'S NO TIME BUT THE PRESENT! DO THE RIGHT THING HERE, FOR THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY! 
Jill Simon I lost my brother in law this month due to his addiction to OxyContin. Why is this addictive drug given out so readily instead of keeping it for those with terminal illness? You can't bring back my sister's husband, please don't let anyone else end their life because of this addictive drug. 
Anonymous I lost my a family memeber to this drug and it has destoyed many loved ones. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 
kristen My friend started out with doing triple c's. A cold medicine that if you take enough of she would get really messed up. She then moved on to cocaine, Oxycontin and now heroin. She was just arrested for possession of a hypodermic needle and possession. I cant pray enough. I can hope enough. I cant go enough narcotic anonymous meetings to help her out. My heart goes out to her, her daughter, and her family. I miss her so much. 
Anonymous My fiance is working so hard to get off these stupid pills. Doctors give them out like their candy not thinking about how many lives they have ruined. I think they should be baned I know friends that cant stop taking them and friends that have died. Herion isnt legal so why should Oxys be legal? They shouldnt and the world would be a better place without them they take over your body soul and mind. 
Mary Fox  
Martin Huczek  
Barbara Martin I am the mother of an active heroin addict, thank you Oxycontin ... the major gateway drug to heroin. How does the Board of Directors of this corportion sleep at night. In the support group of which I am a member, Learn2Cope.org, the majority of the familys have user children that started with OxyCotin. BAN THIS DRUG NOW 
Donielle Hilbun This drug is the worst!!!! No other pain medication has such a bad death rate. The addictions to this drug is horrible. My ex-fiance almost died from snorting this junk up his nose. The makers of this drug should be aware of all the reactions and should not have put this on the market. It is very easy to obtain. I think this should not be availble!!!!!!! 
Lane Perdue My son is the hospital now on an over dose of oxycontin. He is going to survive, but this medicine should be taken off the market. 
Karen Chirco  
John Markley  
Clifton Gibson It says above that all comments must be factual. If you want factual, i have more facts than anyone else that i know about this DEADLY HORRIBLE ILLEGEAL DRUG (oxycontin is herion plain and simple).First off, I overdosed 2 days after my 18th birthday on OXYCONTIN. I used the drug everyday so I woudlnt throw up or go crazy. I live in Huntington, WV. Those of you who dont know what that means ill notify you. This town has plenty of Detoit drug dealers selling kids my age and younger OXYCONTIN. I know for a fact that Huntington has a multi million dollar OXYCONTIN operation taking place daily. Yet next to no one gets busted. I go to school at Marshall University, im your average college kid that got hooked on the drug in a matter of days. Give or take twenty people but i know about 500 people that have tried the drug more than 50 times, therefore they are extreme addicts. If this drug doesnt get banned I believe that my mom, sister, cousins, teachers, and maybe even the president start absuing the drug. Its spreading faster than any fad i have ever seen in my life. OXYCONTIN is like Pokemon cards when it comes to kids playing with it. About 30-35 of my friends my high school now use a needle with a whole 80mg pill in it to get out of bed. I could go on for days about how WV,MI,FL,GA and just about every town in them abuse this drug. I dont feel like typing all the facts. I have 10000000s of facts about anything to do with this drug. Its litterally bone chilling to hear me talk about them. The goverment doesnt realize or care what this drug is doing to the AVERAGE AMERICAN CITIZEN. Nor do they care. Well that needs to end today after reading this very very very short summary of the FACTS of OXYCONTIN IN MY LIFE!!!!!!!! Purdue Pharm main coordinators need to spend some jail time as well as pay billions of dollars. They have to be doing something illegal to have 100000s of OXYCONTIN PILLS go through jsut one town in litterally ONE DAY!!!!! I could go on for days talking about this drug, partly because im still an addict (3 years). I dont know how im still in college. My brain cells are dwindling as we speak. NO MORE ADDICTION AND DEATH!!!IM tired of all my friends dying and completely screwing up there lifes with thousands of dollars in debt with credit cards and drug dealers. 
victoria ojea jeremy taylor 
Ronnie Tankersley  
Matt Hawkins Jeremy Traylor 
Faith Tankersley As a mother of a 30 year old son who is a recovering addict and serving time in a Georgia state prison, I take great pride in signing this petition. I am a RN who knows all to well the effects of narcotics. If my thoughts serve me well,OxyContin was originally to be prescribed for terminal cancer patients. Well, some doctors are now prescribing it like it was a skittle. It should not be prescribed for post op pain, backaches, migraines, etc. and this is what is happening more and more. A drug this dangerous and addictive does not need to be made available with just a written prescription. Not only does the pharmaceutical company need to be held accountable, but so does the medical community. Any doctor found to prescribe it for anything other than terminal patients, should lose their license and serve jail time. They are nothing more than a licensed street drug dealer. Therefore, I feel this drug should be banned entirely in memory of those who have lost their lives because of the addiction and in honor of those who fight the fight every day to overcome. How many more lives are to be lost in the name of money for the company and pharmacies? Signed, Faith Tankersley A concerned mother 
Ann Erickson In the last year ive know 3 people to die from over dose and serval in treatment...Somthing has to be done.Ive seen signs on side of road reading Pain Mangment first visit 69.00.We all know thats just a invite.......Do somthing!!!!!!!! 
Elaine Mininger It is such a highly addictive drug. I am in the medical field and although I have not lost someone close to me, I have seen the terrible ravages it has on people and families. 
Ingrid God bless you and your family Mrs. Cheek. I keep your family and friends in my prayers every minute of everyday. I can not seem to fathom the pain your family is enduring once again. Sam will continue to be the most remarkable guy I have ever met in my life no matter if he made some bad decisions, because he let it be known that he had God in his heart and that is all that ever mattered. No doubt he's in heaven patiently waiting:) 
ROBBIE CHEEK I PRAY THAT EVERYONE WILL SIGN THIS AND SOMETHING WILL BE DONE TO THESE PAIN MANAGEMENT CLINICS WHO GIVE OUT OXYCONTIN. MY OLDEST SON JEREMY DIED ON NOV. 26 2009 FROM OXYCONTIN AND 50 DAYS LATER MY BABY SON WHO WAS ONLY 20 PASSED AWAY. PLEASE BEWARE OF PEOPLE YOUR CHILDREN GO AROUND THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO SALE OXYCONTIN TO OUR CHILDREN. THEY DONT CARE THAT YOUR CHILD GETS HOOKED ON DRUGS THE DOCTORS DONT CARE.I MISSED MY SONS SO VERY MUCH.IT IS HARD TO MAKE IT THRU EACH DAY WITHOUT THEM IF WE CAN GET OXYCONTIN BANNED THEN MAYBE ANOTHER FAMILY WILL NOT HAVE TO LIVE THRU THE HEARTBREAK ME AND MY HUSBAND DAUGHTER AND GRANDCHILDREN GO THRU EVERDAY. MY OLDEST SON HAS 2 WONDERFUL CHILDREN WHO HAVE TO LIVE EVERYDAY WITHOUT THEIR FATHER ALL BECAUSE SOME PAIN MANAGEMENT CLINICS PRESCRIBED OXYCONTIN TO THEIR DAD THESE PEOPLE SHOULD ALSO BE CHARGE WITH MURDER. MY YOUNGEST CHILD DID NOT EVEN GET THE CHANCE TO REALLY BEGIN HIS LIFE BECAUSE OF SOME DRUG DEALER WHO GAVE HIM DRUGS. THESE PEOPLE SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF OUR CHILDREN.  
james timothy mchale  
Ingrid Oxycontin should be banned for sure because everyone around me is dying from it and its just way to easy to get your hands on. I have never done it although I easily could have. This stuff is way too deadly..Rip Sam 
Freyer Cafafrel A very good friend of ours has died as a result of addition to this drug. I think it should be banned with exception of terminally ill patients. 
Vincent G Buckles pain management clinics nationwide arer spreading oxycontin and its family of drugs to young people who are not in need of it. either jail the doctors or take away their income. 
Connie Chirco  
Sonya Booton  
M. Allen  
Bob Lane  
Anonymous  
Sara Saurage Jeremy Traylor- we all miss you  
Anonymous  
Ernestine Miles  
John Keane  
Shannon I have lost both of my younger brothers to Oxycotin and methadone and xanax. My brother Jeremy died on thanksgiving morning at the age of 33, my ohter brother Sammy died 50 days later at the age of 20. Oxycontin is a very dangerous drug. I feel it should not be perscribed to anyone... we have people getting these drugs and selling to high school kids. This is crazy. If we all sit back and do nothing, more kids are going to be killed.This drug not only ruins the life of the abuser, but affects everyone they know, etc family, friends, jobs... it takes everything from you. I beg any person to never do this drug it is addictive and if you get hooked IT KILLS YOU!!!!!! 
Ryan Clear Profiteering for the innocent lives of others  
James Galland I don't want to lose another friend to this drug, here is my signature. - James Galland 
Anonymous na 
Stephanie Ortega We need to ban the killing drugs for good! 
Vanessa Figueroa Oxycontin needs to be IMMEDIATELY BANNED! To many good people who mean so much to their families and friends are being lost to this drug. We need to get it out of the reach of our people! 
kim hasting these drugs are taking the lives of so many of our loved ones,they are everywhere,in our schools in our neighborhoods,in every place we can think of .lets do something about this lets take action to put a stop to the drugs being so readily available to our families our friends,everyone!SIGN THIS PETITION AND LETS DO OUR PART! THANK YOU 
Marcus Infante that stuffs addictive. 
sonya Wimberly I have recently lost my 18 year old son to a drug over dose with this drug. I am just horrified at how easy it is for people to get these frugs in Florida. Basically we have legal drug dealers here. I am disqusted by our government to allow these clinics to continue to stay open.  
Amber dangler I lost a couple of ppl in my family from drugs , this stupid drug oxycontin should be illigel, there giving this drug to kids that are the ages of 15 to 18. i lost one of the best brothers ever, Scotty Swaggerty . i miss him so much ,. i have more hate for this drug than anything in my life . i dont understand why so many ppl have to go away from us becuz of this stupid pill . Rest In Peace Scotty Ty Swaggerty , Jeremy Cheek , Sammy Cheek. and my regards go out to all the families who have lost someone becuz of this stupid drug . 
Anonymous I am a 39 year old widow. Three children are now without a father. He survived numerous heroin overdoses but it took OxyContin to kill him. He didn't even have a habit. 
Anonymous I have several family members that has suffered from Oxy addiction. It's the most horrible thing I have ever had to witness & watch them go through. I would never wish this on anyone. I think they should ban Oxy, it would save so many lives. Even if someone doesn't actually OD or die from them, their life is pretty much taken already! This terrible drug ruins and controls peoples lives!! Get rid of it, PLEASE!!!!!!!!! 
sara myhers  
amy denny  
Debra Razey  
Elizabeth Tanguay so many people ruin their lives for these tiny pills. i did. lost my car, my house, my love. the doctors prescribe these entirely too often. very few people need this level of pain relief. it is the end all drug. detox is terrible. take one and its all you can think about. it lodges itself in your brain and stays forever. its been almost a year since i took one but i still find myself thinking how nice it would be to have just one. this drug should not be accessible to anyone that is not under direct doctor supervision.  
Melissa Ibarguen I would be more than glad to see these evil little pills gone for good. Too many good people have been robbed of themselves and everything life has to offer!  
Gabriela Piloseno  
Ali Riley  
Emily Zaner  
Anonymous  
mary southgate  
Greg LeMaster either inforce prescription laws or get rid of it.  
Anonymous  
shannon johnson  
Kyle Carter bad stuff... 
Natalie Foreman  
Anonymous This drug KILLS many young people in my community have overdosed with only one or two pills and alcohol...young kids are experamenting and are just stupid in tyheir teen years...but do not beelong dying from a sensless drug!!! 
mary macarthur i have been with my sons father for five years.he has been my best friend and i love him more than anything.throughout those five years i have experienced so many tramatic stories. starting with my boyfriend who has been a addict for almost five years. when we first got together he rarely did them, but soon enough as they were becoming popular in west palm beach florida he was taking up to 15 roxys a day and paying almost 15 a pill ,this was when they first came out and people payed that much so they can get there high. its like being with a zombie all they do is nodd off and do nothing painfully ive watched him do this for years but ive never gave up on him bc he needed someone that was sober and his family never had support from his family. the sadest part is they think they need these pills to function or better themseleves bc they feel so good on them or basically take the easy way out on reality.i dont know how he has lived through all of this butGod has blessed him. the one thing i cant figure out is how these people can defend this pill. if they miss one day they become so sick they dont want to function they have diarreha vomiting sweating and so on so forth. so in reality these pills dont help you function better. after that high is gone you are facing reality and facing the consequences of your action. my boyfriend has used all of these excuses and it very pathetic. besides him i have watched a friend of ours, they are brother and sister. the brother was doing roxys and soon enough ha his sister hooked. she became a stripper and realized she wasnt making enough money so she became a call girl. she supportted her habit as well as her brothers. the worse part was she was only 16 and doing all of this. when she turned 18 she got 40,000 from a trust her mother let her and admitted to using mostly all of it on drugs. she stopped wotrking so she could get high all day with her friends and brother. within about 5 months all of the money was gone. the problem is there tolerance was so high that they couldnt get high eating them or snorting them they startes shooting up. her brother started first and started shooting her up. i sadly admit that he has shot my boyfriend up once. now they mooch off people they live house to house. they are currently living with a guy she meet when she was prostituing and the brother hasnt worked in over 4 years. another experience is a couple that were our best friends. this couple had gotten a scrip because its to easy faking one. there was 5 people living in that house. the mother ,father, two sons and one of the sons girfriend who was pregnant. they all had script and were getting more than what they should of. they started dealing and had all the money you could imagine. soon enough they became so heavily addicted everytime we say them they were zombies or in bed sick bc they ran out of pills. the girl was pregnant while she was doing these pills and there son came out autistic. she been so depressed she never got out of bed alwayss had her son in front of the tv or had thegrandma take care of the grandchild. about 2 yearsd later she died of a overdose and the day after christmas her husband dies leaving there son all alone. that baby only had his grandmother but soon enough she ended up becoming depreesed and was taking a massive amount of pills and got hit by a car in frony of her house. now there are only two in that house and the baby. the father and youngest son are taking about 15 - 20 a day and are missing so much time with that baby. they are always nodding off or passed out . i also have seen so m anyother messed up things like how these clinics give massive amounts adn dont even care bc they are getting all this money. i hope these clinics get shut down. these pills have ruined some many people lives and the govermnet need to realize sometimes its not about money/ they wondre why our jails are full and so many people are homeless or dead. i have suffered so much with my boyfriend watching his nodding off and falling flat on his head and not even wake up. passing out in front of our house and not waking up until 6 in the morning when the sun is up. we got into a terrible car accident and was left without a car he walked a good 6 or 7 miles to get roxys and got so messed up passed out on the side of the road and got robbed. ive watched him go done hill enough and i really hope people realize that this drug is not being perscribed right and needs to be taken away bc its ruining for the people that actually need it. its originally supposed to be subscribed to cancer patience but if you say you have back ache you are automatically perscribed 6 a day and they are even giving pregnantg women this drug!its so pathetic that me and my boyfriend were shopping paper and it taught you what to say and how to act while your in that doctors office. i just really hope our government realizes this drug is not helpful at all and there needs to be something done 
Julie Tharp My daughter was prescribed OxyContin for a backache in her senior year of high school. She quickly became addicted, and her life spiralled out of control. She fought for two years to kick the addiction with methadone, detox, rehab, but finally in her desperation she robbed a pharmacy. She was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison. She is 20 years old, an A student, and a talented artist. Her parents are a social worker and a college professor. We live in a small, midwestern town. This could happen to anyone. Purdue Pharma owes me a daughter. 
Shannon Simpson My 19 year old son is addicted to Oxycontin. Dear God please take this drug off the market. Its killing our children! 
brett bartlett we have to stop the manufacturing of this unbelievably addictive drug...it has ruined the lives of so many people i know,including my 21 year old son,not to mention the crime associated with it..... 
stephanie logozzo  
Desiree zervos  
Maria Ludlam This drug has not yet killed my family member.. just taken life away... breathing and alive but spiritually and emotionally damaged and physically declining. This drug kills newer users but for the seasoned addict it's a maintenance drug.. and these the majority of people going to pain doctors, not the teenage victims. READ ON Of course I want oxycontin banned... BUT...Addiction is a chronic and relapsing disease creating a daily need in millions of people all over the planet. My opinion is that the reason oxycontin and oxycodone clinics thrive is because they are LEGAL drugs. Why should any addict have to go to prison for being the victim of a disease where they go to prison and have their lives ruined for trying to obtain what they need and crave? The person with a legal script can remain free of the fear of becoming a felon while the one seeking heroin on the corner faces felony possession charges, imprisonment, and probation.. and drug rehab mandates that DO NOT WORK!...... I think the answer is to BAN PAIN AND DRUG MANAGEMENT CLINICS ON A MASSIVE SCALE.. MAKE GETTING A STORE FRONT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE. PAIN DRUGS SHOULD BE IN THE HANDS OF ONLY SELECT MAINSTREAM DOCTORS WHO TREAT LEGITIMATE PATIENTS WITH WELL RESEARCHED MEDICAL RECORDS AND THOSE IN ACTIVE TREATMENTS FOR TERMINAL DISEASES OR HOSPICE. The problem is not just the drug itself, but the easy access to it via the mushroom crop of clinics that are NOT PROPERLY REGULATED. IF YOU ARE NOT BLAMING OUR GOVERNMENT, YOUR POLITICIANS AND YOUR PRESIDENT YOU SHOULD BE.. IT'S A FOR PROFIT BUSINESS, BIGGER THAN THE GLOBAL PETROLEUM AND TEXTILE BUSINESSES COMBINED... AND OUR LOVED ONES ARE THE DISPENSIBLE VICTIMS. THIS CULLING OF THE POPULATION IS DIRECTLY TIED INTO THE NEW WORLD ORDER PLAN CURRENTLY UNDERWAY. I believe that banning oxycontin is at least a step in a maze,  
Elizabeth Scherf PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get rid of the awful drug 
Callie Trautman  
Anonymous this drug has become and epidemic. I refuse to lose one more person to it.  
Ying Kerbaugh  
Anonymous My son is addicted to Oxycontin, this is just a terrible terrible thing a family has to go through, and he will not get help. 
donna flake My step mother in law takes this drug and it is obvious that she is getting too much. She is definitely addicted and dependent and constantly asks for it, when she can't get to it herself. I can't believe there are doctors that prescribe more and more of this. It is going to be the death of her. I plan on talking with her doctor, I've talked to her along with other family members. We'll see how it goes. If she isn't cut back soon it won't be long before something very serious happens.  
monica mullins The drug rate here for this small community is very high.The overdose rate is also high for this small community.At least 1 a week. My son is an oxycontin user and a needle user. What i say is the truth.Check the zip and you will see.2 overdoses already this week. 
Kenneth Lincoln Delevante III Roxies are an epidemic in the streets of my town. Ive seen them ruin many lives. I experimented with them before and didn't have a good outcome. Doctors are prescribing them without proper diagnosis just to make money. They are getting loose on the streets and causing the lives (not just taking them) to be destroyed. People are going on a downhill path fast with this addiction and they should get the help they need to get off of them. Noted Methodone is no better and there should be programs implemented to the destruction of this habit instead of it destroying lives.  
duncan mcvie  
jennifer i hate this drug and feel like it hurting too many people (users and non users) 
Arlene Wadlington I've seen this drug hurt people who mean so much to me..And I want them to know how proud I am of them right now... 
Wendy Colletti I lived in NY 38 years and came to Florida and started college again. I did my intern at a substance abuse counseling center and could not believe how many people were in for Oxycontin. Actually Pasco county is one of the highest sales and problems.. This drug should be banished!! It is horrible and even get cancer patients addicted who have never even been addicted to drugs. Stop distributition all together 
sean kentfield ban this drug... there are way more healthy way to deal with day to day pain. This is the drug companys way to control normal people by getting them physically dependent on opiates, turning them into junkies. 
Nick Fitzgerald  
Tara Vancel - PROUD SUPPORTER My name is Tara Vancel. I've already signed this petition, but I am writing again because I want to thank the supporters for making this all possible. If we all stick together and get these devil blue pills banned, i know we can have a promising future. I have been addicted to RoxyContin for over 8 years. I have been in and out of treatement, I finally gave it my all on Aug.31, 2009 when my LOVING AND PERFECT HUSBAND told me I needed to get help or I would lose him and my first beatiful daughter. I put myself into a treatment center and got clean. I relapsed on more than one occasion, and ended up in the hospial for not only ovver dose, ut for attempted suicide. Ihave lost 20+ friends/family members to this addiction. Some Dead, some in jail, some institutions, and some just mentally gone. Clean time is NOT important, THE WANT TO GET SOBER AND OFF ROXY'S AND ANY OTHER DRUGS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. FINALLY - EVERYONE PLEASE SUPPORT THE ORIGINATOR OF THIS PETITION, I SPEAK WITH HIM PERSONALLY AFTER ORDERING MY BANROXYCONTIN.COM BRACELETS - AND I AM TRYIGN TO BE A PART OF HIS RADIO STATION. PLEASE, HELP DNATE, HE IS A GREATTT GUY AND REALLY WANTS TO HELP EVERYONE. PLASE ORDER BRACELETS AND SEND IN PICTRES TO SHOW YOU ARE A SUPPORTER. I MEAN C'MON IM BROKE AND I AFFORDED IT. THANK SO MUCH AGAIN 
shauna  
Stephen Fee Luckily I survived the addiction. Although the chance of relapse will always be there for the rest of my life... Aside from the active addiction and behavioral changes that occur while using oxy, the TRUE damage is what it will do to the brain after long term abuse, assuming you live that long. Trying to stay off that stuff is nearly impossible and finding happiness in ANYTHING without using oxy is depressing. I'm fighting to stay sober, but that beast of a pill is always there waiting in the shadows, taunting and teasing me.... TAKE THIS OFF THE MARKET! 
Steve Zonner, D.O. I am a physician in worker's compensation and also involved in Utilization Review where I am asked to approve or deny authorization for medications and other forms of treatment. I have seen people addicted to OxyContin and also have their physicians prescribe it in excess. With the street value of the drug estimated at $1/mg, one can see that an injured worker could "earn" considerable amounts of money "Tax Free", I might add. Many of these doctors are also prescribing OxyContin three times a day instead of the recommended twice daily. Using a prescription of 80mg 3 times daily, that calculates to 240mg per day. Monthly, that comes to 7,200mg and if any or all of that Rx is sold on the street, one can easily see its abuse potential. Please take this drug off the market and make the company pay for the detoxification or at least pay for the switch to an alternative pain medication. There are many more alternatives to this drug and since it is still on the market, physicians are currently introducing more people to this EXTREMELY addicting medication. 
Barely Coping This terrible drug has taken control of my two sons. The FDA approved the extended use of this drug and should be held accountable for the devastation and the havoc this drug has wreaked on children and their families. 
james magee  
linda ahearn  
Patricia Persico My family has been devestatetd by OxyContin. I live in the quaint little town of Sandwich on Cape Cod. No one saw this epidemic coming, and it is an epidemic! My beautiful daughter, who was on the honor roll, athletic, smart, funny all around great kid got hooked on OxyContin and before we even could get a grip that she was taking heroin she was dead along with her boyfriend at 19. He was 25. My niece is on methadone while another one is struggling in rehab. This whole town has been affected by this drug. It stole our children from us. We need to march and speak out against the abuse of OxyContin. Parents, teachers, students, elderly, doctors everyone needs to be educated to what they are getting into. Florida must get a grip on on their pain clinics. I will do all I can to see that this drug is stopped for good. If you are in that much pain there has to be an alternative. 
Kim McGrath I've seen to many lives ruined. Please stop prescribing this. If doctors stopped prescribing there would be no use to produce. 
Melodee  
Anonymous  
Barbara E. Martin  
Laura Mason Stop the use of drugs. My son is an addict. 
Yusuf El-Bedawi  
Christian Yergens  
Anonymous  
Bryan Parker  
Melissa Pavel My Precious Son Jeremy Traylor died from Oxy's after being clean and sober for 80 days. He did it "one more time" and died. His memory will live on in hearts forever! SPEAK UP & OUT when someone has a problem with drugs! STOP THE SECRECY! Friends, don't keep silent when you know your friend has a problem! They will die! I love you my son! 
Tammy Reyes  
Anonymous  
Andy Rachfalski I know several people who lost friends on this drug. 
Christa Hibler Oxycontin is a terrible drug that is killing people every day and also is a drug that addictive . It schould be banned immediately .. Thank you .. 
Michelle Fallacara  
Melanie Friedrich I have been married to my husband for 7 years. the past 3 he has been taking roxies and when he takes them he is a different person. I THINK THEY ARE TOO EASY TO GET. He has a lower back problem and the DR's in FLORIDA just want to give him pills not fix the issue.  
joanne vallejo i had a brother and cousin addicted to this crap....both currently in prison over it.  
Anonymous I was addicted to oxicontin for almost a year when i was 20 and i almost died the day I over dosed because i put tooo much in my VEINS!!! this drug should be banned!!!!! 
Mike Nolan  
Michelle Zanowski  
Robin Stearns  
hellene grundler August 15, 2009, my life forever changed. My beautiful son died of an overdose of oxyContin. I lived his life of chaos and was constantly in an avalanche. I loved him with all my heart and tried to help him in every aspect of his life. When friends and family warned me to stop enabling my mind would translate it to helping. I was as sick as my addicted son. To date I am taking care of my self through the help of my al-anon program and my al-anon fellowship. It has become my lifeline. I personally went to my son's doctor and begged him to stop perscribing opiates. He promised would, but, continued. I live in So. Florida where the sale of oxycontin is an epidemic! I support this petition! Hellene Grundler 
Anonymous Son is addicted. Has been to rehab facility 23 days last Oct. Went to same facility to detox week ago. This drug is definitely an epidemic and availability to easy. So frustrating. I am so sorry for the families that have had to endure a loss due to this "evil" drug 
Anonymous This drug is way too available. I had minor knee surgery and my doctor prescribed Oxycontin for pain. The prescription was for 50 pills with the option of two refills. When I returned to the doctor's office for my six week check I stated my opinion about over prescribing this pain reliever. I took two pills the day after srugery and the rest was destroyed. I have a son who has been addicted and continues to struggle with the after effects; addictive nature brings addictive behavior. His best friend died of drug complications. Too many of our young people have found this and it is way too available!! Let's go to the source and get it eradicated.  
Wanda Winkel Oxycontin, as well as all opiate based drugs should be removed from the Dr's list of prescriptions. It should only be dispensed to terminally ill patients. I know numerous families whose lives have been turned upside down because of this drug. Please ban the distribution of this drug to new patients! Wanda Winkel 
Anonymous Clearly this drug ruins many lives - the extended families of the addicted suffer the disasterous consequences of this immobilizing drug.  
Janice Swanson OxyContin and all drugs with opiates are addictive. Recovery from these addictions are slim. As a parent of a 21 year old heroin addict, I urge you to put money aside and consider how OxyContin is ruining our society. Not only is it a dangerous drug, it is given out like candy. The legalized Pain Clinics (check out CNN's coverage of southern Florida's pain clinics) are a perfect example of money over common sense...it's horrific. You are in a position to educate people on the dangers of opiates, it's not a nice road, believe me. Use your substanial bank roll to help the treatment centers, homeless shelters, food banks, halfway houses/sober houses, and churches, all the organizations that are thankfully available to help the addcits. Help take care of the ones that have become drug addicts, many that started out on Oxycontin, you could make history by being the first big business to man-up, step up to the plate and help the people you harmed. IN the end, money won't buy you self respect. 
Julie Lineback In Loving Memory of Matthew Jason Fox 
Colton ford  
jared knotts  
Yelonda  
Anonymous  
Dennis Schatzle  
Anonymous This drug is just ridiculous. I seem to be losing family members to them left and right.  
lorraine kinne jeremy Traylor 
Matt Bills  
Carolyn I have lost two sons .......this needs to stop!!! 
Anonymous For Jim....tried oxy and now he's gone...BAN THIS POISON 
Timothy Harre Words cannot describe the damage I've seen first hand because of this drug. It's beyond most peoples comprehension what lies beneath the dark side of prescription drugs. It is my wish that awareness will be raised and communities across the nation will finally unite to defeat this bone crushing Juggernaut.  
Blair Byrd  
Edward Byrd This drug nearly destroyed my family!  
Anonymous  
cheryl mcvie we also need to ban ROXYCODONE 
spencer stevens i g/f was addicted to roxy's i a bless her for going to rehab and getting off em. please ban em' they ruin lives -spencer  
sam allen  
Jennifer Dawson Rest in Peace Jeremy Traylor 
beth townsend Jeremy Traylor 
Emma Ellen McCosh  
brandy reece its killing people!!!! 
Betty Mustain I have a 17 year old son in rehab, addicted to Oxycodin, which is being distributed like candy here in South Florida. I am in serious danger of losing my son forever to this drug. How is this drug so readily available to kids? How is this drug getting on the streets? This drug is destroying my family. 
Kristin Winkel My sister is heavily addicted she snorts and shoots this drug up. We are very sad there is nothing we can do to stop her, she does not even care about herself anymore. 
Jessica Cappadona The doctors should also be to blame. 
Anonymous this by far is the most widely abused prescription drug to date. Ive lost too many important people in my life due to this horrifying drug. This drug has ended relationships and friendships for me. It has turned some of the most honest people i know into a hardcore junkies/addicts. Once addicted you find yourself doing things you never thought you would.snorting,shooting,etc. and those are just what you do to yourself. Now think about how much pain its causing your family,the people getting shot and killed in pharmacy robberies.Thinks about all the pill pushing doctors ruining everyones lives just to make money on the side. The list keeps going and going. The people pushing this garbage should serve a life sentence for every life they've taken. 
Rachel Nowicki  
Dena Sullivan  
Mason Kuldinow Oxycontin ruined my life. My x wife was on it before we got divorced. She is still on it now. Her life revolves around it. She does not want to get better because it would mean having to stop using Oxy. Therefore it is ineffective, and should be replaced with a non addictive benign substance like Medical Marijuana. 
Kristin Wallace  
erica burke My children's father has gone to rehab 3 times and can not kick the habbit! On christmas this year he oded and ended up in ICU ! These pills have ruined his life in return mine as well! 
pam madison Destroy SO.............many lives!  
lisa  
Matthew Krueger  
Sue Polk Please ban this highly addictive drug. It took the life of my son and I do not want it to take the life of anyone else's child. It is highly addictive and when it gets a hold of you it will not let you go until you are destroyed. 
Stacey nothing but pain comes from these pills. 
Anonymous I have just recently started to seeing the way people are slinging this pill around like street drugs and Dr's are just prescribing to whomever for whatever. I have gone through withdrawls from xanax and I can understand addiction but these Dr's need to be more responsible in whom they prescribe it to and I would even go as far as testing to see if they are taking it as prescribed or selling it on the street.  
Glen Farmer  
Lauren Gray  
Melanie S Cawood A dear friend was lost this past week and is sorely missed by us all... 
Anonymous  
Tara Vancel These prescription drugs should be banned from the world. I have struggled with addiction and they have almost taken away everything in my life. These stupid tiny blue pills have taken MANY MANY of my family and friends lives and freedom. Its disgusting, its a viscious cycle. God Bless anyone who has never been introduced, and if you ever do - RUN FAR FAR AWAY! 
Pam Miller  
Faye Formolo I have lost two friends to this epidemic addiction. they both died in their 20's. its a sad event in our history, the way we look the other direction when our family is hurting. our people need help. please ban this drug 
Anonymous People in South Florida and all over the world are struggling for their lives. Addiction is a disease, everyone is born with it. Some people choose to either wake it up or let it sleep on their shoulder. My brother decided to wake it up. Now he is battling for his life. He moved out of South Florida, across the country. Now in a long term treatment center where he can get the correct medical help. I pray everyday that the government will stop pushing these pills on the streets, however, it doesnt look promising. 
Sandy M. Lehrke  
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
ka sandra roberts my 15yr old son is in the hospital fighting 4 his life do to a overdose of oxycontin. i cant believe that children can get hold of something like this.my heart breaks for anyone whos had to go through any kind of pain over the affects of this drug.god bless  
Jennifer i had a boyfriend of a yr. and a half that got addicted to roxys and hit me and my best friend with his new girlfriend who was also addicted to roxys car , my best friend was addicted , and my homegirls brother and many of my other friends have addiction to roxys . i hate roxys and strongly agree that they shuld be banned ! 
Mitch McGee I know to many people whos lives have been ruined by this horrible drug. the fact that they are still legal is amazing to me  
Lori Wendling I have two cousins who are both severely addicted to this drug. They steal from their parents and neglect their children. My mother and I both marvel every single day why this drug is prescribed in the first place, and why it is not illegal. I was told today that once you take OxyContin in large doses, your brain does not secrete the necessary chemicals to make you feel good or happy like it did before this drug. Make it illegal to prescribe, possess and use. 
Tara Oxycontin is ruining peoples lives all around the nation. It is way too prevalent of a job and is given out like candy. The doctors who are found to be prescribing these drugs in abundance should be charged with attempted manslaughter and imprisoned. This drug is ruining children and families everywhere. Something has to be done! 
Eliana Blanchard  
Leah  
andrew weiner My friend Vito died of an OxyContin overdose. I also knew girls in my high school who would free base the crushed up pills, before engaging in promiscuous sex with strangers in south beach. It is an awful, addictive substance that I hope is banned 
karin murphy  
Hannah Tarrien I have personally seen many loved ones and friends struggle with oxycotin addictions. I have seen the effects of the intense withdraws and horrible demeanor while under the influence of oxycotin. It is so easy to find on the streets with doctors prescribing hundreds at a time. This is an Addictive drug that is killing thousands of people a year. We need to find a non-opium alternative.  
Becky Should go to the doctors & punish them for over prescribing their patients with a super addictive pain killers.. And not only is it synthetic heroine, it is killing innocent people & ruining families! This has to STOP!!!!!!!!!! I have lost so many friends to this drugs & still have friends doing it. And I can't even hang out with them cause all they worry about is their habit. I can not recall a great recent memory with them.. I want my friends back in my life, I want them to get back to their lives & their families.. I know two women who have LOST their kids cause they just can NOT kick this pill. And I partially blame them, but I mostly blame the doctors!! You sick and selfish doctors! Should get your license revoked for ruining people's lives for your own profit! Sick sick sick, EVIL! 
Lisa Beche I have known quite a few people in passing that has been forever altered in a negative way with OxyContin. My father's best friend's daugher dead at 19; overdose My father's same best friend George's son overdosed, died, and came back to life; still addicted; he is in his early twenties. My cousin Gina still with us, but still addicted to numerous pain killers; she insists her Doctor switched her pain meds; who knows; do we really know the level of her physical pain; or is it all mental; she still has days where she is not with it. An accident waiting to happen. I have too many to mention......this needs to be stopped!!!  
amanda tulucci  
Vanessa Pierce The abuse must be stopped! I have 2 teens fighting addiction. They have informed me that at our local high school there are hundreds of teens that that they are aware of taking oxy's. The entire school population is only 1200. They say it is easy to get, that they are everywhere! What will it take to get help? A senator's child dying? It is an epidemic. Please help! 
Nanette Watson  
Quortni Watson As I look around me, my vision is smothered by a crowd of people whose lives have been taken over by OxyContin. I have seen family members leave church, their children, and their lives behind to support their intense addiction to these prescription pills. I have seen my best friends spend their last dollar to buy a pill off the street. I have caught my 15 year old brother "shooting up" in his bedroom. I left my fiance last year because of his 20 pill a day habit. I know more than 15 people who doctor shop and sell each pill for $15+. Doctors are prescribing them over 300 pills at a time. Its hard to resist the temptation to sell them when you can make $4500 from one prescription. I heard the government was going to control the trafficking of these drugs. I have been waiting for a breakthrough. I have yet to see a change. The sad thing is that very few admit to having a problem. There will always be drug related problems in our country, but I cannot believe that the government is supporting these addicts and making it easier for thousands of Americans to access OxyContin. OxyContin has tore my family apart! 
Kelly Gross I have been addicted to OxyContin for 2 years now and have lost everything I have ever worked for due to it. This drug is so easy to abuse, and obtain through doctors. Something has to be done. I have lost many friends because of the drug. 
Anonymous Oxy needs to be banned NOW!! I, like so many others, have lost close friends to this terrible (Legal) drug. I've watched friends suffer agonizing withdrawl symptoms, and even resort to daily Methadone treatments to help ease the withdrawl while trying to get off of these highly addictive pills. With more people dying from Oxycontin than all other drugs combined, I think the obvious next step would be to take Oxy off of the market and ban it from being manufactured. It shows the sad state that we, as a human race, are in when we will continue to kill thousands of people every year just for the sake of a dollar. Please ban this horrible and unnecessary killer before more young people die. 
jackie johnson My son has lost 2 friends to this drug! He is in a rehab right now after 2 years of use, and thousand of dollars spent on it. In San Francisco, ca. you can buy it on any street corner. Something has to be done about this drug! NOW 
Thomas Cawood This drug killed my friend... BAN it now!!!! RIP Danny... 
Olga Rabah  
Bobbi McCalvin  
Karyn Richards  
Lucas G I have lost numerous friends, each who held a dear place in my heart, due to this sickening pill that is currently destroying MANY of peoples lives and families, as my own. It haunts me every day thinking about it, knowing it is still killing and making people suffer, knowing that the FDA would ever allow something this powerful to be mass marketed, distributed, and then addicted. It is my honor to sign this petition, knowing that I play a role of saving many of peoples lives in the future. 
James Little  
Kyle Newman  
Anonymous there very addicting and totally out of control when kids do them for recreation use  
debbie  
damian Vaudo This drug is death so is xanax 
monique  
Carly Wilmath  
Laura Tiedemann  
Miranda Byrd I think OxyContin should be banned because my mom is addicted to it, and I'm afraid im going to lose her to her being addicted. My mom is everything to me, That is why I'm signing this petition to ban Oxycontin 
Kimone Juarez Oxycontin must be stopped. It is a killer. I lost my love Dustin Anthony Walker on 12/12/2009. He was 27 years old and he was everything to me. Before Oxycontin he was vibrant, with interests and hobbies, he was prescribed Oxy with no problem all he told the Dr. was that he was in a car accident and they were immediately prescribed. Nobody should ever have to go thru the pain I did that day over something that did not need to happen. Take it off the market now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
nathalie poirier Suite à une opération majeure (Tumeur cérébrale) j'ai du prendre des oxycontins. Ces pilules m'ont carrément mis dans un état de coma fonctionelle pendant 2 ans. J'étais incapable d'arrêter de prendre cette drogue qui me tuait tranquillement. J'ai du entrer en désintoxication et faire un programme de méthadone pendant 2 mois. Aujourd'hui, je refais ma vie, je m'en suis totalement sorti mais il y a des dommages moraux et monétaire (perte de maison, de voiture) qui sont parfois difficile à gérer. J'aimerai tellement aider sont qui ont besoin et qui veulent ce sortir de cette enfer. 
steven casper Surprised this hasnt hit home sooner. most of the people affected are young kids in suburban neighborhoods. 
jenny its time we stop losing our friends and family to this stuff. i have kids and want to give them a good future without worrying about some drug dealer or doctor getting my children addicted  
samantha mcagry  
christopher staves I doubt the drug will be banned. Too much money is at stake for too many people. I have seen what it can do and I have lost many, many friends who are now either hopelessly addicted or dead or in jail because of this evil pill. There is no doubt that America would be a better place without roxys or oxys. 
Estee Backoff  
Erin  
Carly Eisenson  
alisha mullins thanks to oxy's i now have an ex-husband and my girls have a dad that could care less about them.. at one time before the oxy's we had a great family and home. i know people make their own choices but here in w.v. o.c.'s are sold at every house on the street and are so easy to get.. i hate the place that these pills came from, because oxy's took down a great husband and dad..i wish they would stop making them and find another way to treat chronic pain. 
Jessica Points They need to be taken off the market....... 
Stacy Langrock Too many people are addicted, have died, or had their lives destroyed by these pills. Over 20 good friends of mine from high school are addicted, in jail or have died because of these pills. These people were not always addicts. They could have been great assets to society and now they are dangerous to themselves and others. It is depressing. Something needs to be done! 
tim pringle the worst thing we could have ever made we need to stop the production of these things now 
Chantelle Moline  
Cameron Davies  
Nicole Johnson  
Kenneth Stuckey  
Anonymous These monster blue pills are killing my daughter, slowly, pill by pill, she is slipping away. They need to be banned!! 
Linda Gerecs I live in an average middle class neighborhood. Hard working families just trying to get through life. So many of the same kids that went to dance, played ball and attended church with my kids and I have been affected by this drug. Let's take control of what happens to our children. 
jenn  
joshua kaufman  
Candace Brinkman I have a brother in law that was battling with addiction problems for years. He finally started to straighten out and get more involved with his children again when he was crushed between two vehicles. The doctor prescribed him this ridiculous drug and unfortunately he began to take it. After trying to ween himself off over a year his whole family including myself are again fearing for his life.... I want to add too.... that at the time he was prescribed the pill he was not aware of how serious the drug was. He attempted to stop taking them and that is when he found that he had to ween himself off them. The pills are simply being misused by doctors and patients ...need I say more...why have they not been ban already!!!!  
Anthony damn little blue bastards 
Bob B. When I was younger I had a heroin addiction which I sub sequentially kicked. Years later I got into a car wreck and was prescribed Oxy for pain. The doctor,(I will not give her name here), wrote me for 180 30mg IR's a week, A WEEK! Plus another 60 opana,(Oxy and morphine together) a week. It didn't take much time for me to just go back to heroin and sell wht she wrote me. I kicked again eventually but not after extensive liver and kidney damage and a ruined life. There is NO NEED for this medication, none. There are herbs, exercise and over the counter aids which do the job better. I am now fifteen months clean and implore the drug companies to STOP making this medication. It is irresponsible at best, at the worst, morally and humanely wrong. "The big three", drug companies are bigger drug dealers than all the street dealers in America and South America combined! They're the ones that actually legally own poppy fields. There's a reason pain meds are cheaper than life saving meds. 
Anthony Jacob Rodriguez I have seen too many people ruin their lives, and/or die because of this drug and its nasty habits. The sooner the better, please. Jacob Rodriguez 
robin miller  
Jillian Rivera I know a lot of people who are or have been addicted to oxycotin and percocet. They are really hard to get off of. The withdraw and cravings are horrible. I wish they would just ban these. 
Chad Smith Oxy's were the worst thing to ever happen to me. i lost everythig...jobs, family, friends, etc. If it wasnt for A.A. and N.A. I would be dead today. I know many people who illeagaly got these drugs and many who have died on them. its an epidemic in my town and something needs to be done.  
Cheryl Fugate  
Peter Kliewer  
Mary Morgan I think this medication is prescribed out of context. just for the money. This stuff kills. It should not be allowed anywhere in this world. Peoples lives are worth more than someone making a dollar.  
DANIEL J BREUNING  
Jacqueline Stanislawczyk  
chad thune Oxycontin is flooding the streets in Florida and kids as young as 13 years old are snorting and smoking these pills and getting addicted! Once addicted all ambitions and dreams go out the window! I know because I was one of those kids. roxies a.k.a. blues took control of my life and brought me to hospitals and eventually rehab. I have known two young people who overdosed on these pills and didn't have the opportunity to recover from their addiction like I have!! Between crooked pain doctors and the people smarter than the good doctors.. something needs to be done!! BAN OXYCONTIN!  
Melissa Hutchinson TAKE THEM OFF 
Anna Radulovich  
Alesia Teer There is no reason ever to need a pill like oxycotin. I have seen and known many of people who have lost everything they own even custody of there children,they get so addicted they will do anything to get it. This drug is given out to freely accross the whole country, it is very sad that the hands thet are suppose to heel us are the ones that are killing the world. ( Doctors Ha!!Pharmacutical Companies)Why???? Is this aloud this drug should be against the law. Alesia Teer 
Susan Swartz My son has almost died twice due to this drug and his friend commited suicide. Many lives are being ruined. 
Marie Matthews I just lost my cousin (29yrs. old), I just watched his mother cling to his coffin and those screams will stay with me forever. Who in their right mind could put a drug out there like this? It's worse then any other street drug becuz it is disquised and presented in a non-harmful way. People are dying something must be done!! 
Betsy Schiazza  
Tammy Overton This drug is so abused and needs to be banned. I am dealing with a loved one and her boyfriend who are addicted and it is taking its tole on our whole family as well as her. I pray this drug be banned. Anything I can do to help in this process I will be doing. 
mike jensen fuck this drug!!!! i,m a recovered addict of almost one year...this drug ruined my life and the lives of my family and friends.... 
Haley Keen  
Amy Engels I almost lost my husband to an ocyContin overdose. He is 3 years sober and now an interventionist helping others. It is so sad how much the doctors abuse giving out the medicine. I also lost my sister 6 months ago to a pain pill overdose. I am willing to help in any way to get OxyContin off the market.  
Sonia Martins  
Anonymous  
Anonymous My son is a recovering addict. 
Gaylon Nathan Boone  
Michelle J. Smith I lost my ex-husband and the father to my children do to this as well as other drugs. They are horrible. 
Anonymous  
Austin Zibbel  
AJ I have friends that have had serious issues because of their use of OxyContin, all prescribed for pain relief. One has had several brushes with death due to this necessary usage. I do not want to see anyone else have something like that threaten their family. 
Anonymous This drug has taken away my 24 year old son's soul. He has lost nearly everything during his 2 year addiction to this drug - friends, job, girlfriend, place to live .... It has nearly destroyed our family and caused such agony. I am terrified his addiction is going to cost him his life. NOTHING has worked, inpt, outpt treatment, 4 months in jail.... NOTHING! It is an absolute tragedy the number of family members and friends this society has lost to this drug. My heart goes out to all of you. WE MUST STOP THIS DRUG FROM BEING DISPENSED IN THE WAY IT IS.... IT IS AN EPIDEMIC IN THIS COUNTRY, particularly in Florida!!!!!  
John Teer  
destiny ruins peoples lives 
Kathleen Anne Zbesko  
April Hagerman Today is February 5th 2010 this day marks 6 years since I lost My best friend My Mother Jennifer Sendmeyer. My Mother was only 40 years old and just prescribed this killer drug the night before it took Her life away, for severe back pain. Instead of trying to find out the cause of Her pain the Doctors were more than willing to just send Her along never once caring about Her situation. My Mother has missed out on so much from the birth of Her first Granddaughter, to the marriages of My sister and I. My Mother was a wonderful person everyone who knew her loved her please help me ban Oxycontin before it take's the life of another innocent person. My life will never be the same I lost not only My Mother but My bestfriend! IN MEMORY OF JENNIFER LISA SENDMEYER BORN AUGUST 29TH 1963 AND PASSED AWAY FEBRUARY 5TH 2006 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU MOM AND I WILL NEVER FORGET ALL YOU DID FOR ME AND US ALL LOVE ALWAYS APRIL HAGERMAN. 
Eric Lazenby  
Matthew O'Sullivan fuck this drug.. too many people lost to them 
Alice Banks  
jamie smith  
ashley rohlfing  
Colin  
Jessie A  
Heather Jones  
Sue Harrison My grandson got hooked on Oxy and couldn't get off. He is now living with a girl whose mother has a perscripiton for oxy patches and he can get access to them. He has not done anything in life for more than 2 years because of it. He was 17 when he started. I think it a dangerous drug. 
Adam Seskunas I find the lack of response on this issue by the FDA absolutely appalling.  
Logan Rex  
Meghan I have lost way to many friends to this crap! its not worth any of it. 
Alexandra Yadgaroff Oxycontin has consumed my brother's life. It has turned my family up side down. I wish it was never made legal. 
Jessica Draper The worst of all drugs I've seen people too. I've seen people addicted to crack that recovered quicker, and didn't stoop as low as some of the oxy users. Its sickening and saddening how over perscribed and mis-used it is. Its a drug that effects people from the highest presidential status to the homeless. I worked in a pharmacy in a small town in New Hampshire and in one day alone, in just our pharmacy (not including the other CVS...Walgreens etc..) we dispensed 3000 generic pills (not including brand name) . This also dosn't include "roxys", percosets and all types of other pain killers. My heart goes out to all the ones who have lost loved ones. 
Loran Maacks Terrible terrible drug. 
josh mickle FUCK EM! 
Pamela Thompson I have seen people I went to high school with, drop out, take up prostitution and DIE for this drug. I had a regular customer are a bar I was working for. He came in almost daily and claimed to be a Vietnam War Veteran. This man would have a single beer and pass out on my bar. After a few months of putting up with it because my manager would not allow me to ban him, I discovered that he received a 900mg monthly prescription of oxycontin paid in full by the government. Not only that, he received so much, he was a regular dealer in the trailer park next door and profited off of this unbelievably high dose prescription. He was constantly coming in with new injuries and storied of jail time and NEVER REMEMBERED HOW HE GOT THERE! I have a friend who's mother receives a regular prescription as well and is barely functional. If you continue to supply the American Nation this drug, I will be led to BELIEVE that pharmaceutical companies, doctors and the government are really out to sicken and murder most of this country. I DO NOT take prescriptions and I DO NOT get vaccinations because of all I have seen in my lifetime. The FDA needs a serious overhaul if not be put out of business all together because they are not doing what they were created to do which is "protecting the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, and products that give off radiation." 
Anna My best friend has bee struggling with an addiction for 3 years....please make the government do something for him and the thousands of others like him 
Heidi I have friends that have died from this horrible drug 
Frances Borges To all the families who have lost loved ones to oxycotin, my deepest sympathy. I myself lost a loved one 25 years old and I am outraged at how easy it is to obtain this dangerous drug. How many have to loose their life before something is done. In my town in the last few months that I know of, four youths in their teens and in their twenties had lost their life all having to do with oxycotin, It is an epidemic that has taken over the whole country. And these doctors are passing out OXYCOTIN to our youth like if it were candy, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 
Susan Sterge  
pamela witte the worst drug on the market that should have been banned a long time ago. how many more people have to die before they do something about this? there is no reason this drug should even be prescribed as there are so many pain killers on the market that are not as addictive as this one. i;d like to know who has the most to gain by keeping this drug on the market. it's disgusting. they've found a "legal" way to kill thousands of people. 
Anonymous  
Jenny Witte My brother was addicted and so was my boyfriend. These are terrible! There is an epidemic and the government is ebhind it. They want us all dumbed down so they push drugs like these. It's not human, it's absolutely a disease. So many people have died or gone to jail for these. My brother was facing 8 years in prison for having them on him. Luckliy he got help, finished probation early, and is clean. I thank God everyday for giving my borther another chance at life, because we all know, not everyone is so lucky.  
Christie Gardner The addiction that these pills cause is unreal. Completely changes the person to someone you don't even know anymore, no matter how close you were before. They ruin lives, families, and friendships.. 
Amy Leahy  
Emma Murphy For Emily. <3 
Samantha My cousin has a serious problem with this and he is 26 years old and now has to have his mother (my aunt) take control of how much oxycontin he gets a day. He would overdose a lot. i'm surprised he is alive =( 
devin stoner  
Corinne Mossman  
McGee Caprio  
Brian Bero  
Yelonda  
Yelonda Johnston I have a 23 year old son who is addicted to this drug, he's homeless, no job. I tried to help him by letting himl ive with me and kick him out 3 times in 3 months as I was blind and thought he wasn't doing them anymore, was I blind, and had him leave for good Jan 29th. He has lost everything by pawning it, I work for a Dr. who is the director of Novus Detox Center, and I never in a million years thought I would have to see a loved one go through this, it's horriable, I have lost my son until he hits bottom and I only pray he does not kill himself on these pills.........I feel so helpless. This has become an epidemic with this generation, I feel for all who have lost loved ones to this drug, and I pray for all of you who have loved ones on this drug............... 
Kathleen My daughter is a 22 year old heroine addict. Oxycontin along with a bad decision has taken my daughter where she never thought she would be! Something must be done!!! 
Joshua W. Greene  
colette 2 funerals because of oxycontain, im 20 and my brothers hooked homless, boyfriend used to do it ...all his friends .cousins and brothers .great ppl all baseball and football players ..this doesnt only affect the already affected 
dena please these drugs need to be banned!! this drug is killing friends and family !!!!  
andrew taylor i am a casual drug user. and even i think this stuff is crazy out of controle. 
Allison Boyke  
Bobby Eldridge  
Jessica Gray My dad's been addicted to these for a while. I've watched my family fall apart. 
Nicholas Fiore This drug killed my uncle. 
B Law  
Joseph Ramil My gf and i are currently battling our opiate addiction.we both went to jail a month ago for possesion and finally woke up.i have seen and i know alot of people who are struggling everyday coz of their addiction.and i caused pain to my family coz of this addiction 
Anonymous My best friend started using about a year ago, and last weekend I tried to help her get through the withdrawals. I live across the state, so I was unable to monitor her and she has already went back to the drug. She is no longer the same person, physically she may be here, but she is a zombie. 
Brittany  
Steve Keretz find alternatives, ban it immed!!! 
Kayla olinick  
sarah Horrible, Dr's prescribing it, getting people hooked. 
dana harrison  
jamie Thomas this is one of the drugs that killed my father and is now in the process of killing my little sister. STOP MAKING IT. 
Georgina Hoffman  
Catherine Smith Breaks my heart! That's why I'm signing this petition 
Anonymous  
Jessica Nowlin  
Roy kentfield This pill ruined my family it needs to e outlawed. 
Anonymous  
Anonymous BAN OCYCOTNIN .. I PRAY THAT ANY USER OF THIS DRUG OR ANY DRUGS FOR THAT FACT, BUT LORD PUT YOUR HAND ON THEM RIGHT NOW LORD! PUT SUCH A FORCE IN THEIR BODIES TO TURN THESE DRUGS DOWN AND A WILLINGNESS TO FEEL THE POWER OF YOU LORD,OH LORD LET THEM FEEL YOUR LOVE GREATER THAN THEY HAVE EVER FELT ANYTHING IN THEIR LIFE BEFORE!IN THE NAME OF OUR LOVING JESUS CHRIST,,AMEN,,AMEN 
teri wyatt I also think methedone should be banned. We have a local clinic that passes this crap out to people everyday and making it leagal for them. How do I do something to try and stop these methedone clinics. I am not even joking. 
kandi libby  
James Hickman i have seen so many people ruin their lives, relapse when out of rehab for just a day or two... so much emotional pain for a pill? 
Skyler Purcell  
Ryan Hoffman  
Jennifer Kulow  
Bradley Sanders I just celebrated 10 months clean and sober from roxy's and other opiates; other habits stemming from prescription med abuse. I consider this epidemic of abuse in all of south florida worse than the freebasing of cocaine in the 80's and early 90's. Please ban this medication. 
Adrian Allen  
Christopher Klug my son is addicted. 
Crystal Murtaugh  
Debera Murtaugh  
Nicole Castiglie i am not addicted to oxycontin myself but in my community it is rare to find someone who is not. both my brother and my boyfriend of two years are addicted to oxycontin and i watch their everyday lives and how they have been affected. addicts do not realize themselves changing and they also do not realize that they are hurting everyone around them. if the FDA agrees to ban the production of oxycontin they will be saving many people who may be dead in the next few years because of oxycontin.  
Anonymous My sister began abusing oxycontin and continued for about 1 1/2 years. Thanks to oxy, the bridge was paved for her to merge into heroin. She suffered an overdose and "survived." She is drug-free today, wears diapers, barely speaks, has no short term memory, and is cared for 24 hours a day. I miss her terribly. 
Anonymous lost one great friend due to this. hes dead and the jerks that sold it to him are still slinging them every chance they get.  
Kimone Juarez I lost the love of my life to Oxycontin on 12/12/2009. He was prescribed this when he wasn't even ill or in pain. He became severely addicted and passed away. I want this off the market. Nobody should ever suffer the same way as I did.  
john j wiprud This product has caused much grief in my family,I can only hope my son will live to beat his addiction. This product not only is a problem as a street drug but affects people who are prescibed it. I know two people who are fighting it for medical reasons, one shoulder sugery( aspiring minor league pitcher), one with arthritis and he doesnt know which is worse. Greed is truly the most deplorable human trait. It's time to do the right thing here. 
Thomas DAnnunzio This drugs and others like it need to be removed from the market TODAY !!! If someone needs that level of pain relief then make them by Morphine Injection and have the shot administered by SOMEONE else. There is no earthly reason for the need to have Oxycontin. There is also no reason for the silly price. Morphine has been know for 5 thousand years and putting it in a continuous table has been done for years. This is good, old fashion, American Greed, at its very best......PLEASE STOP IT...NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  
Johnathon Minshull I have sat back for to long and watched the people i care about (friends,family, etc.) suffer as a result of this drug. I understand that peopl who are in pain may need this drug but it destroys more lives than it helps and something needs to be done. This ban may or may not come to pass but i just hope that by signing this petition, it can be my way of doing somehting after regretably not doing anything to help my loved ones. 
Matthew Bourie I believe that oxycodone is the downfall of american society. I don't see how something as dangerous as this can possibly still be legal. 
Dawn Pool Our 19 year old son is addicted to OxyContin. He was buying it from a father in our neighborhood who was doctor shopping. We have had him in detox twice, with several relaspes in between. He is now in a program that will keep him supervised for two months. No matter how this turns out for us, our family will never be the same. We hope this does not end in his death as it has for many. Thank you. 
yj please ban oc 
Anonymous  
Anonymous I've had too many friends die from this medication, I think it should be removed from the market...  
Ryan Warmath I smoked Oxycontin for about year, and in that year I lost everything, my job, my family, my fiance, my sanity. After going to rehab I was somehow amazingly able to get it all back, beside my fiance, but I now am happily with my current girlfriend who supports me in my recovery, basically what I'm trying to say is, take this drug off the market, the only difference between this and heroin is a name and one comes in a prescription bottle, it ruins and takes lives, bottom line. 
Jeff Wiles my addiction to this deadly substance landed me in the hospital in a three day coma. There has been permanent damage to my liver, lungs and kidneys. This drug should not be available to the public. If it must be used, it should be used by hospitals only in order to keep it properly controlled. 
Anonymous  
Anonymous Not oxy addict, but I am an opiate addict. I lost a very close friend to this terrible epidemic. STOP IT NOW, PLEASE!!!! 
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
Jack Smith  
Valentine do you wanna see three demons that were thurst upon us from the bowels of hell...just pull up perdue pharma. Michael Friedman,paul goldenheim,howard udell....they are modern day hitlers....i hope and pray that they suffer everyday for the rest of their lying demonic lives. They are pieces of trash and there is always a designated trash day....come on people we have suffered enough.lets hit them were it hurts them the most...in their pockets....their lying greedy pockets....the time is now ...lets not only ban oxycontin lets shut that billion dollar demon company down.....The company thrives on blood money....blood from our mothers, fathers ,sons ,daughters,aunts,uncles,cousins and our friends 
Anonymous I almost lost a family member to this drug. The power of addiction is disgusting. Please provide safer alternatives to those seeking pain medications. 
Cody Armtrout Fuck oxy. it ruined my life for the past couple years. because of this drug i did shit i would never do and wound up with 5 felonies. This drug doesnt change your head. It Changes your soul. If you want to ruin lives fight to keep this drug on the market. Otherwise help us get rid of it and help out not only the addicts but the addicts family. BAN THIS BULLSHIT AND SAVE PEOPLE BEFORE THEY GET LOST> 
Jessica Carrier This drug has taken the lives of 3 of my friends, as well as destroying the lives of many others. I myself was at one point addicted to it, but left the country for a 6 month period and was able to quit the habit. Although I've been completely clean for many months now and have no access to the substance, I still struggle with cravings sometimes. How can they say its addictive potential is low? This drug needs to be banned before we lose more good people. 
Gabe Cayton  
Michael OBryan Please ban this drug it is taken lives!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
valerie pellegrino thanks to Oxycontin my son is now a HEROIN ADDICT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET RID OF IT!!!!!!! 
Joshua Beal Please ban roxies, They have only hurt everyone I have known to do them & even killed 1 friend of mine.  
Marjorie Persons I have known of at least two tragic cases of lives ruined by addiction to medically prescribed OxyContin. Please read this petition and ban Oxycontin. Marjorie Persons 
stephanie PLEASE BAN THIS PILL I KNOW TO MANY PPL ARE TRYING THEM DAILY AND I DONT WANT TO LOSE ANYONE FROM THIS PILL. I HOPE THIS BAN IS PASSED BEFORE SOMEONE I KNOW DIES FROM THIS PILL. I KNOW TO MANY PPL WHO SMOKES THEM AND PROB. SHOOTS THEM UP BUT WONT TELL ANYONE. PLEASE BAN THIS PILL BEFORE SOMEONE THAT I KNOW DIES. IN FL. THERE ARE 11 PPL DIEING A DAY FROM THIS LITTLE PILL. PLEASE BAN THEM 
Kim Beal Please ban oxycontin they ruin lives  
Andrea Albrecht  
Donna Santich A dear friend of mine became addicted and ended up in prison for 7 years after trying to steal the drug. Before she was a productive, contributing member of society with a great job. Thankfully, she has recovered from her addiction. Unfortunately her job opportunities are quite limited due to being a felon. I had no idea this drug even existed before she and other folks like Rush Limbaugh became addicted. This problem has a simple solution. It's unfortunate that greed wins most of the time. 
Barb Graham Please remember there are other medications that do the trick for pain control. Don't let another person become addicted. 
Anonymous  
David Moehler  
natalie prakhina  
Natalie Stack  
Barbara Bradley  
Anonymous  
Melinda Johnston Stop the ruining of lives!!!!!! This drug is killing people and thier families!!! N 
Tony Pantuso RIP Matt Duffy 
Kathleen Kiefer My son is an addict and will be for the rest of his ife because of Oxycontin. Get and eep it off the street where not only or young but the irrisposible Pain managment clincs the give them out like candy for cash deals only.  
Barbara-Jane Lindley My brother is dead in part due to Oxycontin and he was not using it recreationally. 
John Bloomfield  
Clint Peardon  
Rhonda M. Marro  
dee micenec Currently my son is in jail due to the abuse of oxy/roxy,,this drug is easy for them to get and something must be done about it. 
Tammy Brooks I know of several people that have gotten hooked on this drug that have lost everything, including to their life.  
Shana Jerkins  
Kasey Lou Lindley The death of my brother could have been prevented had the side affects of oxycotton not been withheld and misleading to the public. Members of my family and I suffer daily due to the outcome.  
Elaine Beagles-Mangrum  
Fran Cornwell I watched a person who was a client of mine do this drug in front of her family and even had them help sell the drug. They lost their home she her husband and son all spent time in jail for this and her son was the person that turned states evidence on them to reduce his prison time. A person that does drugs sends a message to their family and family members that it is acceptable behavior. The end result is poor health in your later years (if you live that long) and your children following your example and a long hard road to go down trying to get [passed those years if you can break the habit. It is sad watching what people do to get this drug and how they will stoop so low to get a fix even kill the family members that they love. I guess I can't understand why any one would let this drug be sold to anyone........ Some things never cease to amaze me.  
Dylan Schacht Horrible drug. Legalize marijauan already instead of giving people synthetic heroin! When will the US government ever understand? 
Cynthia L. Trivisonno  
Claudia Stepp  
Anonymous This drug is killing too many people. I understand it's needed for some folks and being abused by far more people. It's obviously harmful to humans and needs to be taken off market. 
William Lund STOP STOP STOP 
michael negri OXY MUST BE BANNED my son anthony died from trace amounts in his system he was 19 yrs old perfect health  
Patricia Pandolfi  
Hayden Pryor These creations are a sure way to losing the things you love, the ones you love and yourself. Take the pain instead! 
Anonymous I have a loved one who is so addicted to roxies! They change who he is. And he mixes it with Pot. Beer, and zanas. And what it does to the families is pure HELL! 
Anonymous Oxycontin ruins people. it ruins their lives. it can completely change someone from bad to good. Its so sad how it can take over someones life so much, and i HATE it. i myself have never done them but plenty of people in my life that i love have been severly addicted. 
David W  
Kyle  
Stephen Gentile clean for 14 months, not a fan. watch people destroying and ending their lives' on a regular basis. 
Nancy Lange  
Claudia Lund I have seen first hand what Oxycontin and Roxycontin can do. My daughter is in recovery. These drugs robbed her of the past 3 years of her life. As I recall these drugs were developed for people who were suffering from the terrible effects of cancer and were to give them instant relief from pain. Why are they being prescribed by pain managment doctors like they are asprin? 10 people a day die in the state of Florida from prescription drugs. STOP THIS INSANITY. 
Jason Cappiello Dear Roxies, You have ruined the lives of many of my friends! I hope they keep you away for the rest of eternity!! 
Matthew Alexander Raymond  
Jackie Yu  
Claudia Lynn Pearson  
Jennifer Kierszkowski  
Anonymous Please remove this harmful and addictive drug from the market. There must be a less addictive alternative out there.  
Shelli Lopes  
Cheryl Whited My 25 yr old niece overdosed due to the start of an OxyContin addiciton. She was a graduate of James Madison University with a Nursing degree. After an accident, she was perscribe pain medication, she became addicted and her life spiraled down hill starting from here. This drug has been known to destroy individual lifes, along with families. Why would we want to continue to offer a drug that will cause more harm than good. Please do not say, "if taken as perscribed there is no addiction associated", this is not a true statment. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of my niece and what a postive impact she would have had on this world if she had not became addicted to OxyContin.  
Dana Breen  
Crystal Marigliano I am absolutley discussed by this drug. My cousin is only 22yrs old and this pill is killing him. It's so unreal to me that this drug has done the damage that it's done to thousands of addicts and their families. I feel that when these drug companies create a drug they should keep in mind that unfornately there are abusers out there so is it worth it? I'm sure I'm absolutely wasting my time with this because as long as drug companies continue to make billions of dollars off this drug it won't be banned.  
James Rooney This drug has become the new Heroin. It is being used in the community by young teenagers and has become their drug of choice to get high. It is being injected like heroin and kids are dying everyday in the Tampa Bay area everyday. This drug needs needs only used for Hosipce and dying patiens and doctors inthe Tampa Bay area need stopped. It is so easy to get, many Chiropractors in the area are getting rich off prescribing it. IT NEED REMOVED FROM THE MARKET. 
Olivia Rocamora It is a disgrace that professionals just hand out something that is killing people and takes over lives. 
Brigid Hensley I believe the only reason Oxycontin has not been banned previously is because of the lobbying activities of the drug companies that profit from it. So many good people have fallen victim to this. It is time to ban this substance!!! --Years ago, my husband swallowed ONE of these prescribed pills the day after his back surgery. Shortly afterward he handed me the full bottle and insisted that I flush the rest down the toilet. I know now that this is NOT the proper way to dispose of ANY medication but I am thankful that he was astute enough to know that it was dangerous enough to steer clear of. My heart is breaking for the many thousands of innocent victims and their families who have fallen prey to the money-making machine that our health care system has become.  
Don Johnson  
Ryan McConnell  
Jeff Cofer I have seen families destroyed by this and it seems senseless that it continues to be tolerated. We all know that "Big Pharma" has little or no interest in slaughtering their "cash-cow" but how much more we need to see before we say enough-is-enough.  
JoAnne Berman My son is recovering from oxycontin addiction. He just detoxed for 7 days starting January 1, 2010. He remained in rehab for 2 weeks until yesterday. He would of remained 2 more weeks but the place he was in, Recovery First in Hollywood Florida, was not what they claimed to be. He is working hard and we're taking it a day at a time. He started his meetings and really wants his life back. He is very aware at how hard it will be. We have been very scared of losing him for too long now. Unfortunately we lost his younger brother in a car accident 1 1/2 years ago, so he has a lot on his plate to deal with. This drug is too easy to get even though it is very expensive.  
Melanie Griffin I have on to many friend who i have watched change because of this pill and wanting to get "high" off of it. 
Anonymous My son became addicted to oxycontin and was arrested for purchasing this drug. He is still going through the trial but is facing a long prison sentence. My son had a full life ahead of him until he became addicted to oxycontin after being prescribed pain medication. We are lucky he is still alive and no longer addicted but we pray everyday that he will not be sent to prison for purchasing oxycontin. 
Anonymous My fiancee was addictied to Oxy and Heroin. He stole checks from his mother and me, taking over $800 from me personally and pawning some of my possessions. Our relationship finally ended because he choked me until I told him my PIN number and became violent as he was going through withdrawl. He's currently on his way to prison because of all the crimes he comminited to support his habit. This drug turns people into monsters-Very sad!  
Robert Sall Oxycodone is with no doubt the worst thing to have ever been synthesized, with the exception to methadone. While it is extremely addictive, it has a much wider appeal as a recreational drug than that of heroin, marijuana or cocaine because of its medicinal value, and of its acceptance among society as prescribed drug. Throughout history societies have dabbled with using opiates and time after time it ruins lives! Unfortunately I happen to be a living and recovering victim of this deadly substance; I was close to losing all that mattered in my life. I was a dedicated college student, and a loving, caring individual. All was close to losing everything, and I am blessed to still be living today. For all the families lives that have already been ruined, and the ones who could potentially be ruined…end this madness.  
Sarah May  
Alexandra Nicole Theodora Menzdorf I sign this petition to honor and support the Kresser family. I didn't know Josh Kresser but I know Alex Kresser. I love him. He is my best friend. I hope that one day this world won't suffer from drug addictions.  
Judy Fryett  
Tony Omran Very addictive and not neccessary unless bed-ridden in a hospital. Dr's give this out irresponsibly.  
Debra Lubertazza  
Anonymous I know quite a few people who have/are having isses related to this drug! It is time to just get rid of this drug NOW!! My heart goes out to the families and friends of people who know what it is like to deal with this HORRIBLE addiction!  
Drema Servoss I have seen first hand the effects of this addicitve drug. With so many other products available there is no need for this highly addictive drug to remain on the market and should be banned to save the live of many Americans. 
Craig Mittong  
Tracy Brannon  
Dawn Denisio  
laura straubel TO BE AS YPOUNG AS I AM AND TO SEE SO MANY FRIENDS PASS AWAY FROM THIS HIGHLY ADDICTIVE DRUG IS BEYOND SAD! A DRUG THAT CAN ULTER ONES MIND TO WANT TO STEAL AND ROB FROM SOCIETY....NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED. THE REAL PEOPLE IN PAIN ARE THOSE THAT ARE LOSING THEIR LOVED ONES FROM THIS HORRIBLE....NASTY DRUG! 
MICHAEL JOHNSON 3 LEVEL LUMBAR BACK SURGERY AT 36,FOOT SURGERY AT 38,AND ONE MORE FOOT SURGERY COMING UP.I WAS ON THE OXYCOTIN FOR PAIN BUT THEIR ARE ALOT OF SIDE EFFECTS THAT COME WITH IT.BEEN OFF SINCE APRIL 2009.YOU CAN LIVE WITH SOME PAIN,NO NEED TO BE A ZOMBIE TOO.STRETCHING AND EXERCISE IS A FOR SURE CURE AND EATING THE RIGHT FOODS.MJ 
Zack Stockdale My wife lost her mother 7 days ago because of these horribly addictive pills. Please take them off the market!!! They ruin entire families. 
Catherine Stockdale 1/22/10 Today is my 30th birthday and I lost my mother 7 days ago due to a oxycontin overdose. Her addiction was out of her control and the doctors her prescribed the medication did nothing to help her despite there knowledge of her addiction.  
Ashley Blanton This drug needs to be taken off the market and the doctors who are wrongfully prescribing them need to be stopped! 
Denise Falcon My daughter has no father due to these horrible pills.  
Kelly R.  
Shaina Davis  
chris hubler i had a friend lose his whole family and life over these things.. he had everything.. a job a car a house a wife and two kids.. now the family is broke apart the house is being forclosed he sold his car to get roxies he stole from friends he lost his job that he had for 9 years.. bad stuff.. and its so easy to get. 
JJ Henry Finally 
Anonymous People who take roxies and are addicted to roxies to not realize that it affects everyone around them. 
Ryan Edmiston I lost my best friend in this world to OxyContin a day before Thanksgiving this year. I have know him since we were 1 years old. His name was Ryan Deriso, he was only 24. He left behind loving parents, a loving sister and a devoted girlfriend. I will never forget what this drug has done to his family and friends. I miss him with every passing day. I love you brother and I will see you again someday. Your memory and spirit will live on through all of us. God bless. 
braden sneath I have suffered from OxyContin addiction and I have put so much hurt on my family I can barely stay sane. I know two people who died from this poison. Please get rid of it 
M. Maleah Howell  
Laura Rowland  
Anonymous  
christina armenti yes band this crap! 
brandon  
Shawn Miller  
Andrea Thomas OxyContin is an epidemic among Americans today. Pharmacies are being robbed not for the money, but for the pills. Possession of controlled substance charges are at an all time high. This addiction ravages through peoples lives. I understand this addiction first hand as having been through the downward spiral of prescription medication addiction. There has to be another way to treat the patients that really need this medication. OxyContin is proving itself to be destructive. 
Maegan Mcdowell  
K Duncan  
Michele Miller  
Kimberly Duncan  
Daniel Duffy, PharmD. This drug is evil and should be banned, or at the very least, restricted to terminally ill patients through special prescribing requirements. I've seen first-hand how it progressively destroys the lives of many honest, good people. 
heather shenk This pill is the worse of them all. ive lost 2 many firends from doin them. and they change people in so many ways 
Charles Jacob Jones  
Nancy Kueter My 18 year old son Dustin Kueter died from a drug overdose. A drug that was sold or giving to him a drug called oxymorphone that was not prescribed to my son. A new drug being used on the streets. My son Dustin died while three friends knew he was in a coma, deep sleep and in distress as they said. They knew my son was in needed of help. But they let him die so they wouldn't get into trouble. Two of his friends left him and they one talked on my son's cell phone for approx. 40 min speaking to the two that left, when she was done talking she then came up stairs and woke me up saying Dustin's not breathing he is breathing funny. They were not my son's true friends. www.friendsdontletfriendsdie.com TRUE FRIENDS DON'T LET YOU DIE THEY CALL FOR HELP NO MATTER WHAT COMES TO THEM 
Darleen Shanahan  
Keith D Childers Jr.  
Adam Mickelsen rip Kelly 
Shea Olinger  
Brittany D.  
Ashley Kern I've seen the side effects of this drug, as I have been working in retail pharmacies in Tampa, FL for over 6 years now and I firmly believe it should be made illegal by all means. 
Alyssa Sferrazza  
Shay Mahoney Thank you 
barbara bourgeois This is one of the words drugs on the market. They prescribe it to the young and the old knowing how addictive it is. Please take it off the market. We have lost to many to overdose. 
Chelsey  
Paul Larson  
Justine Hipsky I have had too many acquaintances (young and old alike) lose their lives to oxycontin addictions.  
Jason Cummings A close friend of mine overdosed on blues at just 20 years old. 
Courtney Sheppard  
John Buettner Oxycontin is highly addictive and although might provide pain relief it can also kill you. The relief felt by oxycontin is not worth it's addiction potential. 
Kristie Bezoenik I lost my boyfriend of two years a little over a month ago. I sat and watched him struggle with his addiction until it finally consumed him. I did everything I could to get him off of these horrible pills but the N.A. meetings didn't help, once people start to take these pills they can't stop. He was first prescribed the pills for pain and now he's dead because doctors felt that his pain was worth giving him a medicine so addicting that it consumed his life from that point on. There has to be another medicine or way to stop pain without being so addicting and mentally harmful. I beg you to please take these drugs off the market and keep someone else from having to deal with the loss and pain that i've had to go through these last few months. 
Davina Scaringella My little brother is 24 years old and is addicted to Oxycontin. This drug is more harmful then it is helpful. My brother was in rehab (inpatient) for 30 days, and we thought he was doing well, and now find out he's back using and lying about attending his group therapy meetings. My heart goes out to all those who have suffered because of this drug, or lost someone because of it, or are currently going through what I & my family are going through. 
Lois Banks  
Kathy McGurren  
Marina Hensley Since 2005 I have lost 2 cousins, a neighbor and a friend to Oxycontin. This doesn't even include elderly members of my family and friends who struggled with this addiction. When I talk about this problem to others it seems like EVERY PERSON I speak to has lost a number of friends or loved ones to this drug. I fully stand behind this organizations efforts and would like to be in further contact. This is in memory of my cousin and best friend Robert O'Keefe Jr. whos' funeral I will be attending in two days. After a stomach surgery for an acid reflux condition he was perscribed anxiety meds and heavy painkillers at the same time. He quickly became addicted without any prior history of substance abuse and died 2 days after leaving a 2 week rehab center buy ingesting oxycontin given to him by a friend who had a perscription which was possibly illegally obtained. He was 25 years old.  
Wendy Lee Breeden My mother gets 180 Oxycotin a month to abuse from 2 different dr.s and 2 different pharmacy's... it's killing her and it needs to stop! 
Amanda Corman I have known many who are addicted or have already lost their lives to this drug. It is ridiculous and should be banned. 
Monica Mansour My boyfriend is addicted to Roxies and has lied to all his family and friends. He is trying to recover now but it is a very hard process because these things are so addictive. Please ban them... this is an epidemic that MUST stop. 
Yannis Vavourakis Ive seen people become different people on this drug.. and ive even seen people die 
Jacqueline Amanno My boyfriend is a recovering oxycotin addict. Seeing him go through that, having to loose all his friends because they were doing the same thing, was the most heartbreaking thing. I've never done pills myself, but I am very against them because I see what they do to these teens and young adults...It's just a long path to nowhere.  
brian murphy I have seen way too many smart and intelligent freinds get hooked on this crap. i heard i used to be sold only in gel form, then you couldn't smoke it. i know there may be a few people who actually NEED this drug, but if they NEED it, they can take it in gel form. great idea guys i hope people will open there eyes and relize that oxycontin is taking over almost all other forms of drugs, coke, speed, hearoin, and pain killers. thanks again. Brian 
Brian Carroll "R.I.P. Matt Duffy"  
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
Nicole Snoke  
Heidi Goldberg  
Laura Howell Florida is filled with these pain management clinics. Unfortunately, Oxycontin is prescribed to practically anyone who complains of an achy back, sore knees, or shoulder injuries. This drug is HIGHLY addictive and ruins families and lives. Something needs to be done about it. Ban! 
Sara My life would definitely be in a different, way better place if it weren't for these fuckin pills. Not at all easy to stop. And once stopped its a constant, everyday struggle to shut my brain up about them. Nothing good has come out of getting scripts of roxies. Wish I had never tried them. 
Arthur Nez Nothing more dangerous than a beautifully seductive narcotic that will kill you with ease. Get this poison off the shelves please. 
katy richter It's a devastating and heartbreaking addiction. It tears people apart. There are unthinkable consequences to this. I hate how the "pain management" doctors push. They're no better than common thug dealers. Let's get some awareness out there and try to stop this problem. 
Stephanie These drugs ruin lives, and families. 
Anonymous My 30-year old son died on December 16, 2009, from a combination of oxycontin and alcohol. Both substances were found in very low doses in his blood tests. He was prescribed oxycontin for "migraines" and earlier (by the same doctor) for an eye infection (that one with antibiotics, at least). The doctor did not research or question my son re: past medical records or primary doctors. He simply wrote the prescriptions. My son, and many others, think this drug is safe and that fatalities will not happen to them. They don't feel they are "abusing" the drug -- after all, it's not heroin, and it's not addictive. I am devastated by my son's death. I am very unhappy with the doctor who so cavalierly prescribed the drug for medical conditions that don't warrant such pain management. I know my son could have found the drug anywhere. There is simply too little education about the destructiveness of this drug on a person. It should not be allowed except in hospitals or similar situations for those in the extreme pain, i.e., the kind of pain that accompanies the final stages of cancer. A Very Sad Mom  
Alex Box I have lost several good friends to this dangerous drug. To me, it is obvious the machine that has been created by pharmaceutical companies to keep people addicted to this drug. Take it a few times, feel great, and then next thing you know you are in terrible pain and sickness. The only option they have is to take more to kill the pain. This is not a mental addiction. It is very physical. Everyone I know who takes opiates does NOT want to be doing them, but they cannot tolerate the pain from withdraws.  
Lindsey Schmidt  
Ashley Arias This problem must be stopped. I see my friend(s) who think they have this drug under control... but you cannot control this drug!! BAN BAN BAN!!! 
Donna Murphy  
Aly Nicole  
Evan J Petelle My mother is addicted to the damned things, along with many of my friends. It should stop. 
Lisa Peart  
Yvonne Mihalik  
Janet Hudson  
todd everitt penney in recent years ive lost a couple good friends to this drug. i to was addicted after a short stay in the hospital from being stbbed.. luckily i had a great support group and my consequences were not severe. soon i will have lost another friend to this poison. i cant even begin to express my dis approval. please more people sign  
Traci Jewell  
Amy Montcalm  
Ginger Scott I have several (Yes-several) friends who have young adult children that have suffered devastating consequences abusing this drug. 
Patricia Masek This drug is very addictive. I know of several young kids who are in jail . Robbery of a pharmacy several times and some people in our neighborhood have died from this drug. Families breaking up over the addiction. This drug is very dangerous. Please remove it from the market.  
Amanda Masek Please take this off the market Konw of several people in jail and dead because of this drug. It is very dangerouse  
Patricia Beery  
derek get rid of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Evan Oxy is bad news :( 
Kerry Noll The past two years I have dealt with my son's addiction to this terrible drug. Thank goodness someone is trying to do something about this. It has had a terrible effect on our family! 
Reanna Knotts It has ruined many lives. Please save a life. 
Tami Garcia  
Jessica Frost  
Abigail Goldberg RIP MAtt Duffy.  
cassandra bradshaw  
JACOB CARVER THIS STUFF IS RUINING COUNTLESS LIVES AND ITS IS TAKING SO MANY LIVES AWAY AND CAUSING SO MANY PPL TO GO TO REHAB OR OVER DOSE.. THIS HAS TO STOP.. ITS EVERYWHERE AND IS THE SAME THING AS HEROIN. THIS IS GETTING PPL "HOOKED" EVERYWHERE EVERYDAY AND OUR CHILDREN AND TEENS ARE DOING THEM ALL THE TIME AND ITS SIMPLY OUT OF CONTROLL!!! AND A DAMN SHAME THE GOVERNMENT HAS LET OUT CHILDREN GET HOOKED ON THIS .. AND DOCTORS ARE PERSCRIBING IT LIKE CANDY!! HOW CAN AMERICA ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN! AND FYI I HAVE BEEN BATTLING WITH THIS STUPID STUFF FOR YEARS. WHY?? CUZ ITS EVERYWHERE!! AND THE ONLY WAY OUT IS DEATH! OR REHAB AND METHADONE.. HORRIBLE OPTIONS.. HOW CARELESS OF OUR DOCTORS AND OUR HEALTH SYSTEM TO COMPLETELY FAIL OUR CHILDREN LIKE THIS AND ITS CAUSING MORE PAIN AND LIVES THAN ANYTHING!! IT TAKES EVERYTHING FROM YOU. AND ITS JUST A SHAME OUR DOCTORS AND GOVERNMENT HAVE AND CONTINUE TO ALLOW THIS TO KILL OUR FUTURE.. IF THEIR IS ANYONE WHO CAN DO ANYTHING BEFORE IT GETS TO MY CHILD , IT NEEDS TO BE DONE.. ASAP THIS IS COMPLETELY OUT OF HAND AND HAS BEEN,, AND NO ONE IS SAFE !!!!!!!!! WAKE UP AMERICA PEOPLE ARE DYING!!!! 
Josh Harris these things are so bad for the human body all they are is synthetic heroine! people shoot these up and they turn into a complete buddy (aka baser) ban these things IMMEDIATELY ive seen way too many people throw their lives away just because of these things 
Jason Feder  
Denise Beller Oxys are killing our youth! 
sabrina huddleston  
Anonymous  
Daniela Esposito  
andrew gootan  
Austin White  
jerry I have had 3 back surgeries and been on it since 04. I am on day 10 cold turkey. This is not a drug that is only affecting certain areas of our nation, but from each and every big city, to the smallest of farm communities. I started out taking 40mg a day and ended over 600mg a day and in as much pain as I was without it in the begining, but took it so I wouldn't go through withdrawals. Which are like hell on earth. I know alot of people on oxycodone (oxycontin/roxycodone) and weather they were perscribed by a doctor, or self medicating, all loose control. Please, unless you are termanely ill, stay away. Its a miricle in the begining, but death, prison, or quite in the end, and a life of missory in between. I pray for each of you fighting it, each of you who have lost someone to it, and each of you who are contimplating using it for the first time.  
Kathleen Zduncyk  
Brittany waring i have lost way to many friends because of this drug just lost my friend last year this is nuts how this can be so addicting and the doctors dont give to craps they are the ones that are suspto be on ur side and try and help you out and help u not be in pain but they end up getting addicting and cant get off of it so they need to also think about the percotions about this and not give it and there should at least be a quanty that you can only have for a month and if it gone before a month thats there fault they have to wait! 
judy mannering we lost our daughter to oxyconton on 1-08-10. she was gunned down in a small town not even a red light.we live in scioto county ohio.the pain clinics give this out like candy.we have asked the govornor to help. please help us so no other families have to suffer like we have.my daughter had an addiction ,please help us get this drug off the market.mother of nina mannering 
Jesse Garrison I have seen Oxycontin and roxys (30mg) "Blues" ruin lives, Kill friends, Break apart families, relationships, weddings. You name it Ive seen it happen due to Oxycontin. Here in Florida its bad, there no drug prescription tracking program implemented by the state. Therefore its the wildwest of pills out here. Please take these things off the streets. There killings to many and helping to few. 
Christopher Chiccino I have many many comments about this drug but I will leave it at 3. It killed my father, It killed my step mother, and almost me and both of my brothers. oh and one more absolutly tortured therest of my family period. 
Christine Smith I have watched this drug infect my town like the plague. It is disgusting to watch all of the people I grew up with and went to school with ruin their lives from THIS drug! 
jacqui good rip chelsea 
Anonymous Oxycotin almost ruined my a relationship with my bestfriend I cherrished above most. It changed her into something of a monster, a completely different person. We were both able to forgive and forget the wrongs we'd done unto eachother, but I'll never touch Oxy in my life.  
Teresa it is about time it gets banned! 
Spencer Reidy  
Dallas I was addicted to oxy for quite a while, Than was forced under poor circumstances to quit cold turkey, and had been deprived of my only push to quit.. my boyfriend, he was addicted also. But i've been clean now for about two months and so has my boyfriend, and we've never been happier.. this drug is so so terribly addictive and should most definatly have stricter regulations... and it should be taken completely off the streets somehow..  
Brooke Ive just ended a relationship to a wonderful man " that knows what he is doing " but chooses to continue taking these meds... Doc's know what their doing... and yet continue to prescribe this...  
Anisa Noll  
Jill Leonard My cousin overdosed on Oxycontin in July 8,2005 at age 29. On July 5,2006, not even one year later my sister died of an Oxycontin overdose at age 21. My brother went to prison for 3 years during December of 2007 at age 31 because of an Oxycontin addiction. My mother took her own life November 6, 2009( last Thanksgiving) at age 57 because she couldn't handle the loss of her daughter who is also my closest sister. This drug has ripped my family apart causing severe pain and suffering that will never go away. I'm not blind to see the Oxycontin, methadone, and xanax being prescribed like candy. It's an epidemic that needs to be stopped. I serve our country in the military, and this is how the country serves me. 
River ricci  
angel  
Peggy Smith  
Ron and Cindy Paula R.I.P. Matt Duffy 
Amy Morris  
Anonymous Although I understand that people have medical conditions that require management, I feel that this drug is highly addictive and destroys people's lives. I have family members that are addicted to this drug and it has changed them drastically.  
Anonymous My cousin is addicted. It's ruining my aunt and uncles lives as well as my cousin. 
amanda asleson  
Krista L Gust I have known many of people to get attached to this drug and waste their lives away. I would love to see it taken off of the shelves and banned forever. 
matt dixon R.I.P Matt Duffy 
Tarah Perkins We have just lost a cousin to oxycotton. She was murdered in Lucasville Ohio. Robbed for 300 oxycottons. She was shot and killed in front of her 8 year old daughter. She would do anything to get an oxycotton. She was living with an 64 year old man who had the oxycottons. He was precribed this drug. WHY? He wasn't taking them obviously. This drug needs removed or at least another non-abusive form. 
Christopher Pin I don't know one person who actually uses it for physical pain. There are many different options available to treat pain that don't ruin lives. 
Deborah Lynn Garrison This crap killed my father and many of my friends. Now my cousin is heading to trial for a double homicide. Yep...she was addicted to them as well. They're killing our communities and the lives of those who live in them!!! 
Heather Black I have known two people affected by and addicted to this drug. It truly is a "virus" as this website states. Please help the addicted and remove OxyContin from the shelves. 
Anonymous  
jennifer Rieder I am the wife of a man who has been addicted to oxy for 5 years. We have five chidren at home. currently we are legally seperated to try and protect my children and myself from his addictive behaviors. Five years ago we were a family who had it all beautiful house, weekend cabin,retirement set.Now after my husband has spent countless dollars on buying this drug illegaly off the street. We have very little retirment, the cabin is for sale. Our lives have been effected dayly watching this man we love become a shell of his former self. All of the lies and deception. It is devistating to sit back and watch someone you love so much killing themselves, and being powerless to do anything about it. Waking up everyday feeling a sence of dread that maybe this was going to be the morning that he is not going to wake up. 
dave I find it very strange when people say "Well, if you take OxyContin properly, you won't get addicted to it." Look, people cannot change their own physiologic make-up. If someone with an injury is prescribed OxyContin, there is a chance that this person is unaware of how addicted to the drug they will mentally and physically become. The drug has an absolute mind of it's own. It does not discriminate class, race, intelligence, gender or income. I am guilty of using the drug for illicit reasons. Look, I was at a low point in my life. But I have had a very rough several years fighting the horrid cravings OxyContin causes. Do you think Heroin should be legal for pain patients? If not, then do your homework. Bayer Pharmaceuticals used to manufacture heroin. The same way Purdue Pharmaceuticals manufactures OxyContin. Either come up with a more sophisticated way of distributing OxyContin to the people who need it, create a less addictive form of the drug, or BAN it. Thousands of people are enslaved by it, and just as many have lost their lives because addiction is put entirely on the addict. Yet we let Purdue Pharmaceuticals get away with a fine and a slap on the wrist? Please. This drug is a demon, and has no business being so widely available. Addiction is a disease, not a character flaw. 
Ashley Loy anyone who has lost family friends or is dealing with a friend or family in the middle of an addiction my prayeres are with you all. Hopefully enough of us can come together an get these drugs band in the united States!!!!! Sincerly, Former Addict 
Aaron O. Wood R.I.P Matt Duffy, Brian Westmoreland 
Helena Zubkow  
Carolyn Grady I almost died and had to go through 5 different rehab programs from being addicted to this as a teenager please ban this drug.. it was way too easy to get. 
Anonymous THANK GOD MY FAMILY IS NOT IN THAT SITUATION...PRAYING FOR THE ONES THAT SUFFER FROM THIS PROBLEM.....HOW IS IT THAT THERE ARE SO MANY DOCTORS GET AWAY WITH WRITING THESE SCRIPTS.???? AS I'M WRITING THIS, I'M WATCHING E ON ALL THESE YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS HOOKED ON THESE MEDS... SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE SYSTEM.....FIX IT 
rich hendricks  
Caitlyn Hughes  
Bonnie Wright  
Rena Edwards  
Anonymous RIP Matt D ... hope your catching infinite good waves in heaven 
Evan Marlatt I lost my bestfriend to an OxyContin addiction when he was only 18 years old. There's no prescription that can be written to bring back a loved one. 
Todd Hinkle  
Donna Ceryak This drug needs to be ban, it is enabling our young people to do anything for this drug so they can get a cheap high.  
Sean Ritchie  
Anonymous I know so many people who are struggling with a pill addiction...it's sad! It seems edgewater & new smyrna is so bad right now. I know to many that have also lost their life over it! Something needs to be done! Starting in middle school, kids are dying bc they get their hands on roxy's or oxy cotton & take it like asprin..the system needs to get a handle on this! 
jami johnson I have lost more than one friend to this awful prescription medicine...it needs to be stopped. 
Anonymous When is it going to be recognized that this drug has become an epidemic in New Smyrna so that the people that battle its addiction can get help.  
SALVADORE MUNOZ  
Jenny Fenig Rest in peace, Matt Duffy. 
Shae Habersham  
Kriste Boyle  
Anonymous  
Kelly Mankin R.I.P. Matt duffy and Lee.. you will be missed 
Abby Weiss R.I.P Matt Duffy 
Walter E. Smith  
Stephen Schoenfeld  
Jenna George RIP Matt Duffy 
Emily Stapler - Ollila I have lost 3 people in my life to this drug - 2 of my family friends parents, aged 55, and over and now one of my own age, Matt Duffy. I am signing this petition to increase awareness. To those of you fighting it, I am praying for you. May you beat this and come back to your family and friends.  
Meggon Swarner  
Craig Evers RIP Matt Duffy 
Gwen Evers  
brian beaner RIP Matt Duffy 
RIP Matt Duffy RIP Matt Duffy You are in a better place with your family. RIP 
jason robinson RIP Matt Duffy  
Melanie Williamson RIP Matt Duffy 
Morgan Plourde To think upon all the lives this drug has touched in such an awful way; I can no longer live comfortably knowing this one pill can be so readily available to so many people. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of those who live with and are no longer with us, and for those who fight daily for the ones they love and lost.  
Evelyn Crystel Henderson RIP Matt Duffy OxyContin has taken Matt Duffy from our lives and many others. This drug is unnecessary and abused on the prescriber's and prescribee's end. This drug needs to cease distribution as well as manufacturing as a whole. 
Shellay Marlatt-Smith This is for you Jeremy. Love and miss you. 
Michelle Harrington  
Christine Grusel my heart goes out to all that have lost sumone to this destructive drug...xoxoxo 
Sherry Marcks RIP Matt Duffy RIP Jason RIP Travis RIP ALL THOSE NOT LISTED HERE WHO HAVE FALLEN TO BOWELS OF OC'S GOD BLESS THOSE WHO HAVE FOUND A WAY TO RID THIS HORRIBLE DRUG FROM THEIR LIVES  
tyler stewart The loss of good people to this plague needs to be stopped. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens. This allowing the citizens to be prescribed something so horrible, by doctors that make personal gain from their private investments. To think government officials themselves line their pockets with these same blood soaked dollars, while this genocide contiunes is an unthinkable ATROCITY!  
Alyssa Sutton Controy  
dina basile  
brittany stgeorge  
tara jones  
N Childs I still think about my childhood friend Jonathon Jenkins whose life was takin too young due to this drug. 
Alli paula R.I.P Matt Duffy  
Eric da camara  
Still Kickin' in Texas I'm trying to kick this stuff myself, pray for me, and all the poor lost souls fallen victim already to this menace to society. Vist Salem-News.com and read Marianne Skolek's excellent articles on how Purdue Pharma continues to promote this pernicious poison to unsuspecting pain patients. Marianne lost her daughter, her joy, but goes on fighting with her dear daughter's spirit inside her, to help bring this big pharma criminal conspiracy to its knees. Tell everyone you know to sign this petition and tell their story. Almost everyone knows someone or is themselves a victim of this virus among drugs. It may not get my soul, and I vow to fight for the innocents not yet preyed upon by this miserable excuse of a "medicine". It's poison; hasn't helped me one damn bit. I've had my doctor cut my dose in half twice, to slowly wean away from it - so far, so good. Wish me luck, and God Bless you all who help end this madness. I think we can get 20,000 signatures this year, and petition pharmacy boards and congress to pull the plug on this legally administered lethal poison in a little pill. 
Anonymous  
Jennifer da Camara  
Anonymous  
Jason Controy RIP Matt Duffy 
Heather Bolick  
Fred Dobzynski  
Simply broken My son has lost so much weight, dark cirles around his eyes. It just brakes my heart to look at him. This drug must go...to hell where it belongs! Trying to find a rehab for my son. Please pray...He told me he is taking 80mg 3 times a day. 
Evangeline Naill Ban Oxycontin 
Anonymous R.I.P. Matt Duffy 
edward santiago a dear friend of mine died he died of a heart attack but he qwas takin oxy and who knows if that contributed to his death 
Lisa Swan R.I.P. Matt Duffy  
Rock Senette RIP MATT DUFFY! 
Mimi Brooks R.I.P. Matt Duffy 
Daniel  
Christina and John Harrington R.I.P. Matt Duffy 
Javier Cruzado RIP Matt Duffy 2010 
Sad mother For my son, I hope he comes back to me. He soooo loved by soooo many 
brandi baker My brother is in prison because of his addiction to these pills not for selling or a violent crime for an addiction. Ive also had lots of friends die and they need ban them. 
Anonymous  
Katie RIP Matt Duffy 2010 New Smyrna Fl 
Tiffany Evers I just lost the love of my life to these pills 2 days ago (Matt Duffy, 31). I will do anything to bring down the doctors and pharmaceutical companies that made it easy for him to find. I am trying to put together a foundation to help get others off these terrible pills and to educate others about how dangerous they are. I am going to encourage all of Matt's friends and family to sign your petition asking them to add his name in the comments part. Please tell me how I can get myself and my community more involved. Thank you for what you are doing. Tiffany Evers 
Dana Dyar  
Anonymous My step daughter is addicted to these even after watching her cousin get so screwed up on them that he stole from his family to support his habit! He was jailed after breaking probation by doing them and driving and then consumed DOG TRANQUILIZERS for a fix! Jail was the only thing that worked to get him off, sadly. My step daughter used to be a happy and popular straight A student. She used to be involved in ice skating and was well liked by most people who met her due to her charisma and joyful attitude. Now she hardly can look anyone in the family in the eyes, she comes home when her dad is not here because he needles her with the truth and the truth hurts. She has lost several jobs and friends due to her addiction and she thinks detoxing means to snort other pills instead of ROXIES. She sorely needs an intervention before she ends up either killing herself because of the combination of roxies, xanax, marijuana, and alcohol she uses frequently; or gets killed trying to sell her possessions or her self (though she deines doing this) or trying to trick dealers into giving her and her "friends" pills. I pray for her. 
Stewart matter III Get rid of these shits 
Kathy Walker  
Dawn O'Bryan This drug should be taken off the market, it has and is contiously taken lives daily. I understand that some people that are using these are doing so non perscribed, but they and many other that are taking them perscribed are becoming addicted to this powerful nightmare. I have watched personally the pain that it has caused my husband and my family through the powerful addiction!!!! It makes people become someone that they are not. It drives their mind to make desperate decisions because of the power of this horrible drug. I understand that there are people that are in unbearable amounts of pain that this drug keeps them from suffering until there death, but unfourtatly not every doctor out there is making the right choice on perscribing it and we cant control all the doctors in the world. but what we can control is what drugs are on the market, and this is one that SHOULD NOT BE. It is way to addictive and has taken to many lives and destroyed to many families, so please make the choice to stop this madness!!!!!!!! 
Michelle Grubbs Please help this is Killing our Family & Friend someone do something Fast I know personaly 7 people who have died. 
Jim Leavens  
Marion Leavens I know three people dreadfully addicted to OxyContin. It is a terrible drug. I was perscribed the drug once but fortunately was afraid to take it. 
Lynn Stoddard $634 million in fines? My God!!! Think of all those who lost their lives due to this drug yet also think how many lives could have been saved with $634 million! These fines could have gone to feed the poor. Give shelter to the homeless. So many good things could have happened with this money. My sympathies to those who lost their life. My brother in law, was on this drug and died at 49 with a massive heart attack. 
Phillip Van Dwinnells I don't have anyone in particular that I am close to that has directly been affected but I have multiple friends that it has destroyed families, relationships and people. This needs to me monitored more stictly or used only under supervision that does not allow misuse. it's obviously easy to get and the street market is absolutely rediculous. 
Mary Lou White My family has lost so much because of this drug  
Lin Fritz Ban this awful drug and Get all people that are using off it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you for this petion..get the word out there! 
Jerry Garver  
Linda Garver My Husband is fighting with drawal from this awful drug as I write this..I am reaching out in with they attempt to save him and many thousand's that suffer from the pit fall's of o.c.. He had several back surgeries and has become hooked on this lethal drug..I have watched it literally change his life, destroy his career, Lie to myself and others..I could go on and on....He is currentley 5 days clean and i pray this awful drug be banned to save many others from the awful pitful of this evil drug..I ask why would any man-company allow such a dreadful drug to be introducted to the public with such an addictive outcome? Pure greed and no respect for man kind..How do the doctor's sleep at night? I am convinced that The doctors are legalised drug dealer's...Thank you for this petition and god bless you and all the people that are suffering, Take it from a wife It hurt's not just the user but many That are involved in there life.. 
laurie k I have a 21 yr. old daughter who is intensely addicted to "Roxies". I dont know too much about them. How would it compare to something like a Vicodin? IT IS POISON WITH HORRIBLE AFFECTS ON EVERYONE IT TOUCHES! I JUST DONT GET IT! 
Anna Leonpacher  
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
Terry Harrison Too many young people dying from this terrible drug. 
Alyssa McCullough  
Anonymous  
Magge Herndon These pills are not only taking lives but destroying lives. They are too addictive and easily accessible. I have watched while people close to me have struggled to quit and everytime their attempts fail. Please stop distributing these pills they are lethal. 
Susana Silva  
Matt Hammad BAN EM THEY ARE FUCKING UP PEOPLES LIVES!!!!!!!!!! 
Whitney Shelly I started a fan page for I Hate Roxy's on FB. It has become pretty big in the first week it has been up. I posted this on the main page in hopes to get more signatures! 
Kelly Hicks Last week I attended a mental health support group meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, and a member shared the suicide of his sister, who had been a successful attorney, until she'd been in an automobile accident and prescribed OxyContin. He said that his sister's personality since then had been like night and day. Her life so changed, that she gave up in despair and took her own life the week of Christmas, 2009. This is not an isolated story. My own mother became chemically dependent upon OxyContin during the holidays in 2007. I was asked to help transfer her care to pain management. Sadly, another physician has maintained her on Oxycontin, despite my stated concerns, and her ongoing mental and physical deterioration. Again, my family's story is not unique. It is time for this drug to be taken off the market. It was designed for end-of-life suffering, not ongoing chronic management of pain. It's addictive qualities are well-documented. Families dealing with addiction and substance abuse, and then having to endure the detox and subsequent personality changes/criminal activity of loved ones should be enough to have this drug taken off the market. For more information, I would be happy to testify about my loved one's ongoing problems and incarceration in Broward County Felony Mental Health Court, for assault with a deadly weapon, drug possession, criminal driving, all while under the influence of oxyContin and its abuse and criminal diversion. 
LYNN M. Get rid of this poison. Big pharma is killing people daily. My little brother is terribly addicted to OxyContin and we are afraid he is going to die. This is about saving lives. Why do we have to trade any more young lives for fat cats to keep getting rich $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$??!!! 
Bethany Joyce This is a dangerous drug that should be banned. There are many alternate pain medications that should be prescribed instead. Too many people have become addicted to this stuff and it seems to cause nothing but death and/or destruction of families. Get rid of it! 
Janet Bogardus My son who is a great, loving, wonderful man has been addicted for some time now. Even when he went to rehab and got out and told his doctors of his addiction, they still prescribed it to him in large amounts when he relapsed. Able to get two scripts a week. He is now in prison for armed robbery due to the effects of oxy. I am actually relieved he is in jail, seeing how I know he would have been dead at the rate he was going. This drug totally changes an individual and ruins their lives. 
Kirah Simonian My boyfriend of a year Dyllyn became addicted to OxyContin four months ago snorting it everyday up to 15 pills a week, his mom encouraged it, he became very abusive and struck me and that was it, i got together his close family and friends and we gathered money to send him to a rehab, he just returned and i am very scared he with relapse, i just dont wanna lose him to this drug 
Krista Marie Ricketts All I can say is since 2004 I have never been the same. Migranes is not a reason to give a high dosage and for a long period of time while pregnant to a 24 year old. We live and we learn but sometimes its to late the damage has been done. 
Anonymous I wish that they would ban Oxycontin as I was on this horrible prescription drug for my back and I quit cold turkey, before it killed me!!! My 22 yr old daughter passed away on Mar. 13 2007 from on cut cocaine and she was a Herion Addict. DRUGS, BE IT LEGAL OR NOT WILL KILL!!!! ALSO, CLOSE THE METHODONE CLINICS!! I bet that will never happen because the goverment is making $$$$!!! 
kari Crook  
Bonnie Bonaccorsi 11 people per day are dying of OxyContin overdoses. This drug is destroying a part of an entire generation of our young people. It has led many more to Heroin, simply because it is the cheaper opiate, and once addicted to Oxy at $ 80.00 per pill, Heroin is the only other financially feasible option. Other drug companies producing opioids have also "jumped on the bandwagon" due to the huge profits reaped by Purdue, and opioids have thus become the "norm" in treating all pain - to the detriment of all patients, young and old. Purdue Pharma is committing an act against humanity - ALL for the money!! - and should not only be held accountable but also liable for this criminal act.  
shanna mcclain my boyfreind mixes two prescriptions. we have a two yr old and i am affraid i will lose him to this. any time i say or try to help he gets angry. now i keep my mouth shut and have been rsearching to help. 
Kelly Bulman I work in the pharmacy industry. I have seen first hand the people and families who have been ruined by oxycontin. These people are not addicts out looking for a fix. These are honest, hardworking people who became ill or got hurt and were prescribed oxycontin by a doctor. It is AMAZINGLY easy for someone to obtain oxycontin from a doctor but when people want to come OFF of the drug the doctors are much less willing to help. I have heard MANY stories of physicians REFUSING to help a patient come off of the drugs that their prescriptions have caused an addiction to. The physicians just want to stop prescribing cold turkey or continue writing scripts. They REFUSE to prescribe Suboxone or aide the patient. This drug is a great pain reliever, I imagine heroin is great at relieving pain as well. Why is heroin illegal and Oxycontin isnt??? They seem to have EXACTLY the same effect on people and their lives. 
Mary Hyland Praying for families affected by this drug's misuse and what it leads to..... 
Cathy Dreifort Somebody please stop the horror of this drug which leads to total devastation of the addict and the family and friends. This is an epidemic that is killing our chidren!  
Amber Harper This is a dirty drug that has affected more relationships then I would have liked it too.  
Carolyn Collins My son may never overcome his addiction that started with oxycontin - even after a year in jail and a near fatal overdose.  
Natalia Kalinka They should stop raiding medical marijuana dispenseries and start raiding doctor offices!!! The doctors now what they are doing and they just like the house payment. What a horrible government america turned out to have! horrible corrupt people running this country playíng with its citizen like puppets, scaring them from the rest of the world and getting them hooked to bring in some extra dough!  
Lani McDonald I have lost a child to this. 
Nahshon Léts take these scam artists down!!!!! greedy money making awful people! 
Amanda Connors  
Dorothy LaFleur Too many people have been taken from this world too early because of this drug! 
Matthew C. Stansbury  
sherry romero  
Anonymous  
tasha romero My brother is hooked on it at the moment and i know many people that have taken it that shouldnt be. 
Destiny Saunier  
Rebecca Reynolds My brother, along with a close friend lost their lives due to oxycontin. Please take it off the market. 
Carole Hill Oxycontin is the grim reaper in disguise. My youngest son passed away three years ago relating back to oxycontin, had he not been prescibced oxy by a Dr, he would not have gotten addicted, also my other son was precribed oxy and he too became addicted and currently is serving time in prison because of this powerful urge to use this drug. Nothing good comes from this pain medicine even when used as it is intended . It takes a person's dignity,then their soul, then their life and when this happens the family slowly dies too. The bad out weighs the good, even docters aren't spared, no one is safe as long as Oxycontin on the market. I have suffered so much because of Oxycontin, during the use of the drug by my sons and the aftermath it has left. Save someone else's child, it is to late for mine. 
Lenora Lamar  
Marisa Duran  
Anonymous  
Lindsey  
Monica Williams This is a terrible drug and has been the source of many addictions and many lives lost. I am against this drug.  
Nicole There needs to be much stronger regulations for this drug. It is perscribed for things like lower back pain. The issue is only getting BIGGER AND BIGGER!!! If banning it is the only way to get this drug less available then lets do it. I hate what it does to the people I love. :( 
kenny smith Kids need to stop foiling OxyContin 
ryan childress i want it to stop....now. R.I.P. loved ones 
Ivan D Mejia I was addicted to oxycontin for many years all because of a little back pain that doctors thought really needed it. At first everything was all great without pain, but that's not all that it blocked out. I lost 7 years of my life especially with all the bad, most embarrassing things I've done and close to death situations that have happened to me. The sad part is I don't remember a thing at all, not one, unless my so called friends told me what had happened. That also led to other drugs as well. I thank God for everyday day of my life which I'm now recovering and getting back to the real me. My heart goes out to each and every family that has lost a love one to these so called helpful meds. I vote deeply to ban oxycontin for life! 
Barbara Allen My son, Jim, died from the disease of addiction, specifically an overdose of heroin and alcohol. He fought the disease for 21 years. When heroin came into his life, he changed dramatically. It broke his spirit and my heart. The world does not need more drugs; it needs treatment, recovery and treatment and recovery from this explosive disease. If your family hasn't been effected yet, stay tuned. No family is safe from this disease. Please rethink the profit angle of pain medications and look at the human toll. Please stop supporting the legal killing of our loved ones. There are choices - ethical, moral, and human choices. Please vote with your heart and soul on this issue! It matters. 
Olivia McGehee Jeremy Traylor 
Nat Miller Oxy Contin is a disgusting and dangerous substance and i fully support and encourage the ban! After reviving my best friend Shannon who died on my floor and is now in a vegitative state 9 months later, reading all this information i find on the internet im astonished that oxy contin was ever realeased. My friend overdosed after being prescribed oxy contin for a broken leg for god sake.... You don't need a drug as powerful as heroin for just a broken bone. Instead of wasting time making and realeasing more oxy contin, i'd like somone fron the drug company to come and see Shannon is his ward and start working on a treatment for people like Shannon and start correcting the horrible mess that this drug has caused. We all make mistakes but the only way we get past them is by fixing them. Thank god for people like you for setting up this site. god bless you shannon we miss you brother!!! Nat. 
Tiffany <3 Something really needs to be done and soon. This drug is not only killing people, but it is ruining familes as well.  
Robert Banks My best friend became addicted to oxycontin and it ruined his life. 
lorine mosher LETS STOP SELLING THESE DRUGS THAT ARE SO HIGHLY ADDICTIVE TO OUR FAMILIES FRIENDS AND COMMUNITY.MY BROTHER WAS RECENTLY TAKING OXYCONTIN AND HE DIED ON NEW YEARS DAY.LETS STOP THE ABUSE. 
robert hollenstein I was on oxycontin plus other short acting pain meds. for 10 years after many surgeries every time i went into doctors office and told him i still had pain he would up the dose not talking to me about side affects then when i was a couple of days short he treated me like a criminal i was determined to get off of this junk. I got off my live is much better but Iam having side affects i feel like someone woke me up after 10 years my wife and kids have suffered more then i have thank god the pill taken is over but i do not know what will happen next  
Janet Swider My son battled an addiction to OxyContin/Heroin, the battle is never over. Those that love him pray he wins. 
shirley Ziser My brother is addicted, he is a different person because of this drug.  
cheryl wood I have a close family member who was addictd to this drug. since it is prescribed by his dr. he didn't seem to think he did drugs or had a problem. He died today. While I don't know as of yet if he died from an overdose or not, i do suspect this to be the case. He also took other meds. that make this drug very dangerous - resperatory failure. He died in his sleep...if it didn't kill him, it surely added greatly to his drug addiction and death. I this is a very dangerous medication.... pleasr don't let more people die, leaving families torn apart, children left without fathers, sisters left without their beloved brother and mothers left burying a son way too soon - 43.  
Kayla Johnson I've watched too many people I know ruin their lives and let everything they know (or used to know) spiral down to a point of "nothingness." I'm tired of watching people ruin their lives with something smaller than a penny. 
Rebecca Richardson On Sept 18, 2009 I lost my 31 year old brother after he went to sleep and never woke up. A former drug addict he had been clean for many years. About 6 years ago he was in a car accident and had major issues with his back as a result. The drug of choice was Oxycontin. Within a year he was a full blown addict and over the past 5 years he spiraled further and further out of control. Upon his death we found not 1, but 5 unfilled prescriptions for this drug along with Roxycontin that had been written by various doctors in his hometown in FL. He died alone in his bed because once again he had fought and gotten violent with his wife who left for the weekend to protect her and his 2 young children. The morning he died his wife returned home and allowed his 3 year daughter to climb on the bed to kiss her father before she left for preschool, not realizing he had been dead for hours. This is not only a crime but a travesty. With enough money and a few complaints anyone can get access to this medicine. How many more have to die before something is done about this? 
Kim Pannett I lost my son, my only child to this "Demon Drug" on 11/22/2009. My son was only 26 years. He had everything going for himself, 3 successful years of college behind him. Made Dean's List every semester and was only 1 year away from earning his BA in Marketing/Business Management. I fought the battle of Oxy addiction with my son for 5+ plus years. I made a promise to myself that I would never turn my back on my son and to never stop believing in him. This "Demon Drugh of the Mullineum" is taking the lives of thousands of our youth! How many more young lives must be takane before our government puts a stop to it! It is my opinion that the government more than likely will never step in and put a stop to it; simply because the Pharmacuidcal Industry is one of the largest money making industries in our country; just as the auto industry. It is all about revenue. How can anyone place a dollar value on our children's lives? I am on fire to everything within my ability to help put a stop to the manufacturing of Oxycontin. I live in what most would consider a relitively small town and I personally no of more than 100 lives that have been lost due to this drug. I know several more who are currently struggling with over coming their addiction to Oxy. The very sad reality of it all is that only 1 in 5,000 will successfully beat their addiction to Oxycontin. The manufacturer of Oxycontin is Purdue Pharmacuidicals. Purdue ied to the consumer about how powerful and addicting Oxycontin was. The chief exectives of Purdue are serving 5 life term sentances for lying about the powerfulness and of how easily it was to become addicted too. Most of what is out on the streets that has become easily accessable and having a never ending supply is "Black Market" Oxycontin; which comes from Afganistan and Saudi Arabia. Both countries not having an FDA, so who really knows what is in these pills? More importantly how is it finding it's way into the U.S. and into the hands of or youth? Why is this drug not placed in a classicfication of it's own; if our government is not going stop the manufacturing and distribution of Oxycontin? Our government needs to get this under control some how some way and fast. This is truly an epidemic that is running rapid throughout the United States and other countries as well. I could go on and on about Oxycontin, but the bottom line is that I will never see his bright smile, touch his face, feel his big strong arms hug me, or hear my son's voice ever again. I will never see him be the man he wanted to be, graduate from college, marry. living his life happy and successfully, and I will never be able to experience the joy of being a grandmother. What I have to look forward too is living with this big hole inside of me that will never go away, nor can it ever be filled. I am left here to live my alone and grieve for my son for the rest of my life. I am very thankful to Teen Challenge and everyone who lives and works within the facility. My son spent 18 months at Teen Challenge. During his stay he developed his own personal relationship with "God" and when he left he left with having a great love for the "Lord". My son was and still remains one of God's soldiers. He is a "Warrior". He fought long and hard in his journey of life... My son, you will be forever missed, but never forgotten. Your memory will live on forever. My tribute to you is to do eveything within my power to ban Oxycontin. Throughout my son's bible he had written on every page "I hate Oxy", "Oxy stole my life", "Oxy kills". Everyday I wake up missing him, going to bed every night missing him, I cry for him always. Please use me in anyway neccessary in your crusade of trying to ban this "Demon Drug". Respectfully, Kim Pannett "A mother mourning the loss of her only son and only child"  
Julie Young I am making a plea to ban these drugs that are destroying our children, our families, and our communities. Money is no excuse for keeping these on the market. So much more money is being spent on rehabs, crime, court costs, medicaid, funerals than is worth any amount the drug company is making. Please see the dangers in this and tell me why is it taking so long to do something about these drugs? Please help us. It is too late for some but not for everyone. 
Adrienne Buendia  
Pauline Desmarais This ban is more dear to me than you know. I have a 22 yr. old son who just told me he was addicted to Oxycontin. We are in the process of getting him help and he is doing really well, but this should not so easy to obtain! It ruins lives!! 
Tina Strain  
Lori Buendia  
Alice Buendai  
Jennifer Di Salvo  
Madeline McBurney Ban Oxycontin now. 
hope vizcarra i have a young nephew just recently found out he is abusing oxycontin, for whatever reason it may be he is a young innocent child that had no clue what was ahead of him and it is dasaster. your whole life is wrapped around the next hit. together we can get this evil thing out of our loved ones hands. HOPE VIZCARRA 
Denise Meese  
Kris Scott  
jill a mcdaniels  
Shellbe Cucuel  
CLAIRE LAMARCHE I HAVE A DAUGHTER AS I SIGN THIS ; THAT IS IN A DETOX , CENTER . IF I WOULD HAVE NOT SEND HER THERE ; SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD TODAY. THIS DRUG AS TO BE BAN IMMEDIATELY. IN CANADA THIS DRUG IS PRESCRIBE FOR EVERY SURGERY OR OTHER.MY DAUGHTER IS ALIVE , BUT DAMAGE DUE TO THIS DRUG. I WILL PERSONALLY START A PETITION IN CANADA . DRUG COMPANY ARE IN TO MAKE MONEY AND AT THE EXPENSE OF THE HUMAN BEING ....CLAIRE  
Saney OXYCONTIN SHOULD BE BAN.. THIS IS THE KILLING DRUG OF 2009 AND IT IS KILLING OUR MOTHER'S, FATHER, BROTHER'S SISTER'S, SON'S, DAUGHTER'S AND SO ON.. IT MAKE'S YOU REALLY WONDER IF THEY TESTED THIS DRUG OR NOT.. SEPT 2009 I LOST A FRIEND/DAUGHTER TO THIS DRUG OXYCONTIN.. THE LAST PERSON SHE WAS WITH IS ADDICTED TO THIS KILLING DRUG.. HE GAVE HER THE OVER DOSE THAT KILLED HER.. NOT SURE HOW HE DID IT.. MAYBE IN HER DRINKS, OR MAYBE IN HER FOOD.. HE KNOW WHO HE IS!!!!!! SHE HAS A 2 YEAR OLD SON.. IT'S A DAMN SHAME HER SON HAS TO GROW UP WITH OUT HIS MOTHER!! I MISS YOU JEN AND YOU WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.. I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!! HUGS AND KISSES JEN.. MOM/SANEY 
Ryder Sprague lost a good friend to this  
angel  
michael pappas  
Anonymous  
julie biggs  
John Uneegar My sister Lisa died Dec 15, 2009 from Oxycontin. She was 35. She had been battling the drug for years. 
Anonymous Just lost yet another friend at 24 years old to this drug. I have never in my life seen more people effected by this drug. It is a killer.... 
Anonymous  
Kathy Cole  
DARRYL CHANDLER Please stop the manufacturing and distibution of this drug that kills and ruins lives! 
joselyn  
Mariel Chandler Please stop killing our families, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers. Please pay attention to our pain. 
Micah Bogs Save Lifves Ban Oxycontin!!!!! 
Jeannie Hanson My step daughters mother died as a result of Oxycontin overdose. The mother was prescribed an enormous amount of the stuff. My oldest step-daughter was one of her children who found her dead. My oldest step-daughter has been in re-hab twice and we still have cutsody and are raising our grandson due to his mother's drug abuse. 
Caila Orth  
Isabella Please ban this chemical which has infiltrated my community causing widespread addiction, loss of family, loss of businesses, loss of the future for many of my fellow citizens.  
tena entwisle it cost the life of my sister inlaw.  
TRW In memory of JMT, my daughter, who passed away in Sept 2009. No history of abuse--accidental. She has a 2 yr old son, who meant the world to her. May she always know how much she's loved and missed. I will never get over this... I never knew about this drug until this happened.  
Christine Ferella I have watched my friend fight for his life in a hospital recently. I think this is the most dangerous drug on this planet. It should be banned. I am lost for words at what I have witnessed in the last week. My friend was on a ventilator, and in a coma due to this drug. I have watched my close friends and family suffer from this evil drug. I dont and never will understand why these drugs are so available to people. It makes me sick.  
Anonymous This drug has caused nothing but grief in my family. My sister, now struggling with addiction, has had her life ruined by this drug. 
Ric Main  
Anonymous  
Rebecca Black  
Anonymous  
Jason Edgington  
Jody Woodson-Schwartzman  
Kelli Rigsbee this drug is very much like the new coke, one pill and you are hooked, just don't take the one! 
Amber Martinez Finally getting clean but this shit ruins everyones life...most of whom are teenagers or early twentys..so many have died or have a life long problem because of OC 
tracee hartman December 21. 2009 00:38 I just lost my 27 year old daughter from usage of oxys,meth,zanx on the 22nd of nov this year"still waiting on toxic report....we had found that she had been given 600 oxys for sure 350 meth and 180 zanx the 350 could have been zanx and 180 could of been the meth..not sure as my husband has that info..all within 23 day monthly. we too had gone to the clearwater police as well as contacted doctor before she had passed and they had told us that they could do nothing.It hurts so bad knowing there was nothing that we could have done to stop these doctors before her passing. but we are doing something now...fighting anyway we can..if you need any of our help or if you have any questions please email me....from a mother that will never stop hurting and will never give up the fight. Tracee 
Danielle Stubbs  
Jay Goering  
James Snyder  
Hazel Snyder  
deidre hays this is a very powerful drug that needs to get off the streets, it has destroyed many families. i have seen for myself the effect it has on people that i love very dearly. two of them being my niece that overdosed on oxy,s and my brother that had a issue with drugs. people needs to open their eyes to what is going on with this drug. it needs to be stopped NOW. too many peoples are dying !!  
Darla Eddy My nephew shoots up oxy. and is again in teatment. Ban this crap!!!! 
Cody Goering DEADLY...GET RID OF THIS TOXIC ADDICTIVE ?&%#+=G SH.. 
Jonah West  
Justin Anderson  
Bobbie Surman  
Dave Goering  
Anonymous This drug has to be banned.Ninety percent of people in treatment is because of oxy.If the person doesn't go to prision first,it is sure DEATH...I know my son is addicted and presently in treatment.Iknow of 3 of his friends who have died,two were brothers.Their mother commited suicide 1yr ago,because she could'nt stand the pain of loosing two sons...Pharmacies are held up and gunpoint,people sell their perscriptions everyday,why doctors even perscibe this drug is beyond me. 
James E. Wheeler There are enough over-the-counter pain killers to meet most needs to fight pain. 
Paula Pappas It is about time. I would also like to ask that in the meantime, when a person with a prescription (that is obviously bogu)s gets busted the law should go after the prescribing physician as well. These Doctors are more culpable than the addicts, as they promised to" do no harm" in the Hippocratic Oath they took.  
constance pappas I most strongly agree with this ban...and would go much further to restrict and even control both the Dr's and the pharmaceutical companies from manufacturing and prescribing drugs like Oxy as though they are candy. Not until you have experienced the loss of a loved one due to drug overdose, can you understand the need for taking a "hard line" defense against one of the greatest enemies to the American public today. I have experienced such a loss...with the death of my son....so I speak from experience. Since my son's death...I have watched numerous lives lost or destroyed by addictions to so -called legal drugs. They are no better than street drugs...and with research and loss of finanacial gain behind the over-prescribing and development of such addictive drugs....drugs can be safely used for what they are intended. 
Barbara Legere  
Barbara Stewart WOW, Where do you start as a grandmother ... my memories of happy, wonderful days and then ... what happened? From happy days to days of worry, stress, and not having enough money to pay our bills. WHY? OxyContin, damn that substance to the pits of hell...the maker along with it. TO THE MAKER, don't give me the excuse that it relieves the pain of the few ... think about the lifes it ruins. It is not only the person hooked on the drug, but the families, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, grandparents, great grandparents, etc. WE ARE ALL AFFECTED BY YOUR MONEY MAKING DRUG ... PLEASE LISTEN TO OUR PLEA, stop this now before the epidemic goes further. Our town suffers weekly from another overdose, loss of lifes. WE BEG YOU ... before it is to late. One young man recently went into the drug store, demanded this drug. One year later was stopped by police, which led to shots being fired, he was killed, WHY! It started with OXY. THE DESIRE IS SO MIND CONSUMING, that the people taking it lose their sense of being a human ... they turn into non caring, drug addicts. IT'S ALL ABOUT GETTING THAT DRUG. TO THE DOCTORS! STOP SUBSCRIBING THIS DRUG ... Sincerely, Grandmother "MAM" 
Kathleen Adams My son has had some drug problems off and on for the past few years, but from the very MOMENT that he took his first oxy early last year, I saw the O demon take hold and it's been a living hell ever since. His life has rapidly deteriated and he's now incarcerating pending multiple criminal charges. He's switched to morphine lately, but will get an O whenever he can. Loves them. But he becomes a totally different person. Such a wonderful sweet young man turning into someone I don't even know. There is so much more to our pain issues than needing a pill. I do massage therapy and I've seen some amazing problems with people's bodies messed up, including a few cancer people who have passed on. Far too many docs have been quick to resort to the use of this for pain. We all have different pain thresholds and there are MANY eastern traditions and alternative natural means of reducing and eliminating pain. Seems the brain gets totally hijacked with this stuff. It needs to go, but I fear it won't. Big Pharma happily pays claims so they can continue to cause the elimination of some of the world's population. I'm committed to helping change things & promoting recovery rather than incarceration. Hope it's in time to save the lives O, heroin and meth and other drugs will take if we don't make the changes needed. For those needing extra help, check out EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique. It's a fantastic tool to use with addiction and every other emotional pain in our pain bodies. My prayers to all of you.  
Anonymous Thank God I have not lost anyone but I do know someone addicted to Oxycontin. I'm still amazed at how this drug works. I pray for everyone that is on it for the pain relief. I pray for anyone that is addicted to it.  
Deborah L. Case Prayers Love Hope and Faith. I feel this is right to ban, but will it stop the mfg illegally? or getting elsewhere? biggest problem facing drug abuse is the dealers locally who give and sell any kind of drugs. the cartels will continue with illegal means, and DEA is getting them. but it's not enough. It is the locally known drug dealers, the 'little guys' who are the culprits in spreading these and other drugs to others. NO TOLERANCE TO DRUG DEALING. 
renee west why is this drug legal? why is big pharma making money off of people's addiction miseries both legally and illegally obtained? 
Nicole Malcolm This is a horribly addicting drug and grabs people before they even can have a moment to think what they are doing. 
Michelle I. Get this Horrible drug out of the hands of our young people of the future!! 
Jordan Stubbs I lost one of my best friends this year due to and overdose of oxycontin. This drug should not be produced anymore. It has becom such a popular drug amung the youth. 
Ashley Snyder  
maryjo alessio My 21 year old son died four years ago May 12, 2005 from an overdose of opiates sold to him by a boy whose Mother received unnecessary prescriptions from two different area Doctors.At tone time she did need those meds for injuries. However at this point she no longer needed them and gave them to her son to sell to the kids in Clarence, NY. With the increase of deaths associated with the use of this drug and the increase use by teenagers as a recreational drug please wisely consider taking this drug off the market. The next child may be yours. Respectfully yours, Mary Jo Alessio R.N. 
dd flynn I lost my daughter to drugs 4 years, 2 months and 12 days ago. Not to oxycontin....but it doesn't matter. A drug is a drug and we are a medicated society and we lose approx 8 lives a day in each state due to RX overdoses. We lose our future, EVERYDAY....and as I type this, we just might have lost the cure for aids, or cancer or a future positive influence to our community. Just now. Right now. Today. I am currently working on getting Pharmaceutical Monitoring in our state of GA. We are the only state in the SE without it. 38 states have it. We are a completely medicated society. A pill to wake you up, a pill to help you sleep, a pill to calm you down, a pill to lose weight, a pill to quit smoking, a pill to make you happy, a pill to that may have suicidal effects, etc. Geezy. 
Ria Coesel There is a tsunami of drug-related (legal and illegal) deaths here in our country. My daughters murder was (illegal)drugs related. However many, many deaths are because of prescription drugs. We need drug-monitoring programs in ALL states - it's hard to achieve because there is too much money involved for the drug industry. OxyContin (and some other prescription drugs as well) should be banned. And yes, relief of pain can indeed be achieved without OxyContin.  
William Busby This drug has brought an epidemic to this country and has caused more pain than it has relieved. We create these "painrelievers" in pursuit of the almighty dollar. And yes, it may help people with their ailments, but it causes much more pain than it helps. These corporations don't care if the drugs they manufacture help or hurt us. What they do care about is the profit they produce. Isn't that the driving force behind anything that is sold in this country anymore? What is the cheapest, best, most efficient way to make some more money. It makes me sick to my stomach. I can only hope for a brighter, safer future for my son, but only if we learn from and correct the mistakes we have made. Bill B 
lav What's a mother to do? 
Kia  
Margaret Mazzucco  
Evee Spanondis  
Patricia Lainhart Please take this dreadful, addictive pharmaceutical off of the market, we know of several people struggling with the effects of this addiction. In our area we have had several robberies in pharmacies from people who are so desperate to have this drug they will kill for it or hurt someone just to get it. You had no problem making the Rorer Company take Quaaludes off of the market why can't you do the same for Oxycontin? They say there is nothing like the addiction to an opiat I don't know I have never had to take this medication, thank God, but try to save the lives of people who have been prescribed this and are now so addicted to it that nothing else matters to them. Rehab does not even work. Thank you, Patrica Lainhart  
nancy pappas In our family alone, we have three young people struggling with Oxycontin addictions. Please stop the doctors from writing these death causing prescriptions. 
Yvette Mansted There is an alarming increase of Oxycontin addicts in our small community. The same doctors who are treating the addicts are also prescribing Oxycontin to the suppliers. They all sit together in the same patient waiting rooms. Please ban this drug. Yvette Mansted 
Jesse Ecker i have lost friends to o c and think it is one of the worst drugs in the world 
Florinda Williams This drug is destroying more lives than it ever helped! Let the pharmaceutical companies prosper off drugs that cure medical problems not create them! If we can put cold remedies behind the counter to control abuse in this country we can surely get a ban put on this "legal, but lethal" garbage! 
Jenni Matheny  
Anonymous I have a relative who has a terrible addition and it has destroyed the relative and other members of that family. Please help. 
Cynthia Mangos  
laurie millette I live in an area where the estimated oxycontin addiction rate is 40 percent of the adults. there have been recent efforts at one local school, to send kids home with food for the weekend. because from friday's lunch, til monday's school breakfast, these kids DO NOT HAVE FOOD. their parents addiction is so severe that the first attempts to send the food, the parents found and stole the food, and sold it for pills. so now the school teaches the kids how to HIDE the FOOD for the weekend. oxycontin sells for ONE DOLLAR per milligram in this county. addicts usually reach a point of needing over 300 milligrams per DAY, quickly. the house next door, I watched the woman lose her home, her belongings, her health, 100 pounds of weight, all because her daughter is addicted to this drug. the woman is now in a nursing home, the home is destroyed and foreclosed. this has to stop.  
zarli bakman this terrible and deceiving drug has taken over the lives of my dearest family and my friends. since it's FDA approved, they don't believe there is any risk of addiction or dependence. end this misconception now! 
Rickey Mason There are people faking bad backs doctors are giving them this oxycotin then they are selling it on the streets. 
E. Joyce I am so glad to have gotten my brother back! This drug has destroyed my family, and ruined my brothers life. Thank god that we caught him when we did, and now we can watch him go on with the rest of his life. Love you WCJ<3 
Cindy Sierzchula My daughter, Courtney, died from Oxycontin at 17 yrs old. Something needs to be done. Our kids are dying from this nasty drug everyday. 
Cindy Sierzchula  
Jennifer Allen RN December 15,2009 I have lost my daughter and my son in law to this terminal disease caused by Oxycontin. Yes, it is a Terminal Disease. Fortunately they are still alive for the moment and reside in Florida Prisons. I do not have any faith in their continued sobriety upon release. Recovery rates are approximately 5%. This addiction has only three outcomes: Destruction of the Family, Incarceration and finally, DEATH. The addiction to this drug is not the addicts fault. Substance use/abuse and addiction are a symptom of mental illness. The person wants to stop the inner pain and will use any readily available drug to do it. Currently this drug is the easiest to obtain and is even legal to do so!Often, the person who becomes an addict never substance abused until their dr prescribes this medication, thereby creating a drug addict! The criminal justice system is wasting money by condemning the addicts. The real criminals are the suppliers- The Manufacturers and The Physicians. I am an RN and can testify to the easy availability of this drug to ANY patient. The availability of it is fueled by greed of profit! It is time to change laws and STOP this 'legal' insanity!!! PLEASE please please stop this! 
Dmitri Rainey  
Angela Howard  
justin hutchinson  
Anonymous  
Anonymous Ban this crap! It has destroyed many lives in St. Augustine, Fl. and every other town I know of. 
OLYMPIA PAGANO I HAVE A DAUGHTER WHO HAS BEEN ADDICTED TO OXY FOR 5 YEARS BEEN IN AND OUT OF REHABS NOTHING HAS WORKED NEXT STEP I PRAY WILL HELP IS JAIL AND I PRAY TO GROW OLD TO SEE HER HEALTHY AND BACK TO MY LOVING CHILD! 
James Dorr It amazes me that a weed is illegal because it is so "harmful", yet this poison is sold to people. This is an addictive and deadly poison, and people will do anything to get it. Very sad times. 
J. Collier I have a very good friend that is suffering from an addiction to this horrible drug and I just hope to God that he gets help before it's too late. His wife doesn't seem to care that he is dealing with this demon.  
michaela johnston  
brie johnston  
Michelle Perkins  
Maura Pierson In Memory of Shannon Marie Pierson who died from a oxycodone overdose. If we get these drugs off the streets our innocent young children will stop dying. This will stop the drug dealers from selling and making a profit off this garbage. And it will stop them from giving this to our young pretty daughter's so they can take advantage of them as in Shannon's case. But instead it killed her. I hope he rotts in Hell. And he thought he got away with it, mmmm... god never forgets.  
Melissa Pierce  
Sandra K. Sleppy  
Z. Murray I do not have chronic pain. I do not know how effective the alternatives to OC use for pain are. What I know is what I see OC use has done to families, and to individuals I care about. I see the lost connections to loved ones (the lost friend, child, spouse, parent), the lost trust, the lost potential blooming in a child, the lost jobs, the lifelong struggle that it enslaves its users with. I hear the anguish and desperation in the voices of loved ones as they open their hearts to others who share their pain of having an addicted loved one. I question the benefit/cost ratio for oxycontin. Can the pain relief of the few outweigh the overwhelming devastation that comes from this drug for so many our country's people? Didn't the manufacturer know of the true addictive nature of oxycontin? Didn't the manufacturer know that their production amounts of this drug were way out of line with the expected usage patterns of a 'not highly addictive drug' prescribed for pain? Wasn't the massive production of oxycontin beyond what would be required for pain management of a 'not highly addictive drug' be as evil as any other opiate drug cartel? Aren't those actions an attack on our nation, our people, our neighbors, our families, and ourselves? 
Bill Ford Following the opiate addiction of my own child, I have known of or personally, far too many "young" opiate addicts. My child and by far all others that I known, got their start with pharmaceutical, Oxycontin, the favorite and most deadly. The dirty black side of this is the nasty cheap street heroin that steps into the picture. BANG! Heroin addiction is growing faster than we can stop it. I feel no loss in banning oxycontin. Bill F., www.dadonfire.net  
Lora Kittles Lost my 31 year old sister to Oxy's yesterday..... She went through rehab twice and still continued to fall into her old habits.... Life will never be the same without her 
Matthew Kittles  
James Murray  
Tiffany  
Maria Harding  
Ronald Grover We are suffering from our son's addiction to Oxy. There are other legitimate ways to deal with pain than legal heroin.  
Cindy Shaw If this works, and oxycotin is banned, you will make this mother so very joyful. Good luck to all of us suffering directly or indirectly from the horrible effects of this wretched drug. Doctors prescribing this drug should be arrested for trafficing in drugs. 
william one question to the fda,,what in the hell are you thiking? don't you see the death and destruction these opiates are causing? don't you care? well guess what we can see all of the above .and we as a supporting group will nots top until these opiates are removed from the market,we will not sit back and watch as people die and suffer family loss from these drugs, so open up your eyes and have a heart ,get rid of all the bad meds on the market,,i wait to see the outcome of all this mess that opiates have caused by being allowed to be made after all the controversy about it 
Ron Hatteberg  
Benjamin Brown  
ray gross  
Corinne de Palma  
Anonymous  
Sarah West I have seen many intelligent people my age ruin their lives, even those you would least expect. I am tired of this epidemic. I too have been addicted to Oxycontin and I will tell you that it is the most addictive drug and it destroys lives. How long are we going to let children go with out their basic needs because Mommy or Daddy had to choose their fix because they didn't want to feel like they were dying because of withdraws? Our government will allow this? Amazing, way to fight the war on drugs. 
Anonymous I have lived through the hell that oxycotin addiction brings, my child survived her addiction, but my family is still dealing with the after effects of this abuse, even after 2 years clean. She still battles her demons. It KILLS young Minds! I think it is the deadliest drug on the market, it is killing families and our nations youth. I have seen and lived the devastation and pain it brings. Shame on the drug company that brought this drug back, knowing the addictiveness of it, I hope those executives rot in hell for doing this to society. 
Tiffany Lanni Too many teenagers are ruining their lives over this pill. A form of herion? Who really wants their kids taking this kind of stuff. My bestfriend got hooked on oc about a year ago, and now shes moved on to the needle. This pill will only make you feen for a different high. 
Benjamin Prichard Enough death for profit! 
Chelsea Malek I almost lost one of my best friends, and also my boyfriend at the time, to this drug. It's the scariest feeling to have someone call you from miles and miles away and say that they think they overdosed and are dying. This should be illegal. Plain and simple. 
John Mistler So many students in my high school are addicted to heroin now because they got into oxycontin. Also a friend of mine just died from oxy. 
Gail MacDonald Hillbilly Heroin has done so much damage to families. Please ban this horrific over used medication. 
James Murray  
John W. Brown  
Tim Brown  
Bryan Emery  
Rene Rice  
Stacey Johnson This drug needs to be done with. If 1 pill can kill a person, Why is it so easy to access. People need to be aware of this poison, I couldn't imagine losing someone to this drug. Get rid of it! 
James Murray  
Carol Emery  
Michael Coleman I am among the many that have lost someone dear to me due to Oxycontin. This drug needs to be taken off the shelves. 
Sami LaRock  
SHIRLEY HANSEN i will not allow any of our family to use anything from perdue untill this drug is nolonger sold or made. 
MILTON HANSEN THIS DRUG SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN SOLD, WE ARE LOSING OUR KIDS TO THIS VERY BAD DRUG. WE WILL NO LONGER USE ANYTHING FROM PERDUE AGAIN UNLESS YOU TAKE THIS DRUG OFF THE MARKET. 
Darka K. Reilly  
Michelle Beth Burke God bless those who have lost their children to OxyContin, and God bless the rest of us who's children are fighting for their life to be drug free after becoming a victim of OxyContin. And for those of you distributing and making this drug, God be there when you have to answer for it. 
Zack Scott  
Selena Adkins I hate this stupid drug!!!!!!!!!! My husband had an excellent job in the mines making 30.00 an hour and he got hooked on this drug and lost his job and he spend thousands on this drug, gave up on his family and everything it completly took over his whole life, we have 3 children together, he abused me so bad while he was on it and finally I had him comited and it lasted 2 days, then he finally went to the methadone clinic and had been going there for 8 months but I think he is back on oxy again! Please someone has to do something to get this off the market! My whole life is falling apart, our marriage is awful now I cant trust him at all he hid this from me for almost 3 years and I think is is again please pray for him!!!!!!!!! 
Blake Violette  
Tessa  
tyler kania  
deidre carrell We are lossing our son to oxy addiction. He can't fight the battle against this drug. We have no insurance to find help. Our moneys are gone and so is my son. God Help Us All! 
Lucas Thal 3 of my friends have died from OCs .... and I'm only 21! 2 of my friends freebase and everyone has seemed to just give up on them. Let's give some hope to this cause and stop this bizarre legality!! 
Michael Mahoney I lost so many friends to this drug, all the stories are true. What Purdue Pharmacies is doing is downright evil! Sure the terminally ill may need this drug in order to get better, but the majority of users are abusing this super addictive substance. I see a new world order, controlled by oxycontin. 
Scott Stranne My best friend opened up to me today and told me that his dad died of this horrible drug when my friend was in 4th grade. His mom had an addiction and oxycontin ruins so many lives, it has really hurt me today, even though I didn't lose my dad. Please ban this drug!!! 
Mildred Horn OxyContin has ruined many lives....some of whom I know. 
Michele Gilbert  
joanne depalma  
Socorro L. Salazar  
Marilyn Fisher  
catherine madani  
Dylan Leage  
Ms. Ladis Niedzwiecki One of the worst drugs out there......just look at the prison system ,or obituaries, sadly.... Thats the benefits of ths drug.....  
aaron delatorre dear oxycontin. i hate you, you lie ,cheat,still. you made me think i couldn't live without you. i never want to see you ever again, i don't want to be in the same room as you. you make me sick.i wish you were never born. you ruined my life there for awile. you have ruined some of my friends lives. you are a killed and someone should take you off the streets. don't ever call me again! i wish you were dead! P.s. life is so much better now that you are out of my life!  
Josh Hanson  
Caitlyn&DylanShaganash STOP THE DRUG ABUSE ITS TEARING FAMILYS APART . IM LOSING MY MOTHER TO OXY CONTIN BUT I QUIT MYSELF & NOW ON METHADONE BOTH ME AND MY BOYFRIEND & ITS GREAT! BEEN CLEAN FOR 6 MONTHS FROM OXY CONTIN IF WE COULD QUIT THAN YOOU CAN TO .;-) Please stop killing our loved ones & end oxy contin 
matt no oxy 
SETH MURRAY  
alejandra topete i bleieve that they should end this at once!! its just killing inocent people. lets stop this we can do this together!! 
anthony normart this stuff is nasty and its devouring my neighborhood !! 
Abe R Salazar  
Caroline Sowle  
Jessica Coleman I spent a small chunk of my life addicted to generic oxycontin. Not nearly as long as the years others have lost to this sincerely harmful drug, or in the worst case the lives lost. Just recently I spent nearly 4 months and $35,000 to recover my life from the jaws of my addiction to this drug. The damage caused to OxyContin far outweighs any perceived benefit of the drug. I have watched many people put themselves and their children in harms way just to get "one more pill". I think it unfair to these children and to society as a whole to let this drug continue to exist. From experience I know that people who are on OxyContin think they are fine while intoxicated, even while they are burning holes into their clothes. They go out and drive around town putting whoever happens to be on the road around in mortal danger. It is hard to describe just how damaging OxyContin is to someone; it takes control of their mind and their body. When you are addicted to OxyContin you will do anything (ANYTHING) to get your next pill, and you honestly become a whole different person, incapable of making sound decisions as any decision you make will be to ensure you are able to get your next pill. Oxycontin is a danger to everyone who comes across its path and I respectfully request that it be removed from our society. 
Anne Eselun  
Devon Sparks I support this cause and I believe that it is important for others to be aware if this and help ban oxy contin to prevent anyone from dealing with losing a loved one to this strong drug. R.I.P. Pete Angstadt III you will always be in my heart! 
Kristen Gill To all the families & friends that have lost a loved one to this evil drug, my thoughts and prayers are with you & my heart goes out to you. To the people that are battling this awful addiction, you can beat this!!  
Brittany Vanacore  
Stephanie  
Ellen Ringenary  
dakota haynes sorry for everyone who has lost somebody but we need to get this pill out of here before i lose anymore of my close buddies 
Kris Allen The ban of oxy would be a very good thing ive lost too many peopl from this drug and banning would prevent more deaths.  
Ashley Mullins  
Cristin Sirna  
Staicia Southern Hello my name is Staicia Southern. I'm a sixteen-year old girl from California and I am highly interested in becoming an anti-OxyContin activist and help put a stop to the addiction and loses of our loved ones. Over the passed couple of months I have lost two friends of mine to this drug. When I found out about my friend, at first I couldn't believe it. Know one expected it from him, know one knew he was abusing this drug and then all of the sudden he's gone, just like that. At that moment I decided that I wasn't going to just wait around to see which one of my friends is going to die next. I decided I'm going to do something about it, I am going to do everything in my power to let the world know about this harsh drug and that our children are getting ahold of it and that one little interaction with this drug can take them away from us forever. I can only imagine the pain of what it feels like to loose a child, but the pain of loosing close friends at sixteen hurts. These friends of mine weren't bad people, they were genuinely good true-hearted kids and wonderful friends, always full of life and smiling and making sure if you were having a bad day that they'd cheer you up. For years now, tons people I used to hang out with and call my friends have turned to this drug and completely neglected everything else. It has turned them into shady, deceiving people that I would rather not have in my life, and so I choose to stop hanging out with them, and I stuck with a small group of friends i trusted. But even in this small group of friends, that drug found its way in and took the life of someone I loved. I want to talk to as many kids and families as possible and just get let them be aware, and if I can do more I will. If it saves one life at least I know doing something right. My friends that are gone no longer have a voice to speak for this, so I believe that it is my duty to be the voice for them. 
Shanna Hommel My son Eric is 16 and has been using oxy for at least one year. I am outraged at the stupidity of the doctors that prescribe this. This drug is meant for people who are in horrible pain or dieing. Why arnt the doctors held responsible for the addiction. It is interesting to think that doctors make up 70% of investors. Is this why they dont care about our family and friends? 
Reena Lee I lost my mother, when I was 16, just over 6 years ago now, to an accidental Oxycontin Drug overdose. Accidental? Yes...because she was so high off the ones she was supposed to take, that she forgot she already took her dosage, so she took some more, and more and at the ripe age oof 36 left behind 4 children ages 4,6,10, and 16. And her husband...who was the reason she had became hooked in the first place. 5 years later? He accidentally overdoses and that 16 year old girl had to play mommy for years. I hate oxycontin. I wish it was never created.I wish I knew then what I knew now. The differenced between small side effects and hey somethings not right here!!!! I would have flushed em ALL down the toilet. Oxycontin issometimes prescribed for moderate pain. Like back pain, like my mom. It stopped her heart while she slept...she didnt even get a chance to hate the drug as much as I do NOW! R.i.p Kimbaly Rose Hutchinson (Perales) 10/20/2004 R.i.p. Ramon Alfredo Perales 2/14/2009 xxxxxxx Your daughter 
Judy Bortolotti  
janine tyser In memory of Howie for my dear friend Marianne Greco 
mark mason  
jennifer Howry This is a terrible drug and needs to be taken off the market, ASAP!!!!!! 
Donna Miranda  
Kate Herrier  
Theresa Bibbo  
janice ban this shit killing drug,,we want stop until it is,,all is does is kill and mangle up people in the end 
Andrea I work as a pharmacy technician and it is a sad state of affairs when you see first hand what this drug does to people.  
holli it needs to stop. people are loosing family members and friends to this. end it now! 
marianne greco Please ban this terrible drug. It didn't help my 75 year old Father from cancer pain, but it DID kill my fiance at age 37! 
CHRIS THIS IS FOR MU AUNT TINA WHO I LOVE SO MUCH 
JOESPH  
Terra Hopkins God help us 
teresa jones I would love to know what type of aasistance the makers of this drug give to people that end-up addicted and loosing everything?  
kristina e  
diane  
Adam Cassidy If you wanted to design a licensed pharmaceutical with the perfect characteristics for the black market, you'd be hard pressed to do a better job. With a convenient protective coating that is easily picked out when you crush the pills, a consistency and potency to the resulting powder that is highly attractive, and the company's brand to ensure easy identification and solid quality control - it's no wonder they call this stuff "East Coast Heroin" up here in Canada. 
D. Mason  
Dora Delgado Pleas sing this... It is important to keep this away from our children... A member of our family is in the hospital due to this drug almost lost his life... Thank you all for your prayers...  
Pam Meckley Please take this drug off the market and leave us our loved ones. 
Layla Jones I am currently going to a methadone clinic due to addiction to OxyContin. It is killing MANY of my friends & family members. I have lost MANY people to the DRUG! I'd love to see it off the market!! I'm one of the few lucky ones that will & has admitted that I have/had a problem. 
wanice  
Amber Cochran  
Heather Smith  
CHRISTINA WHEELER MY FAMILY IS RUINED BECAUSE OF MY CHILDRENS FATHERS OXYCONTIN ADDICTION, WE ARE ABSOLUTELY MORE THAN HEARTBROKEN OVER IT. HE IS OUT ON A $50,000 BOND BECAUSE OF ROXY'S (TRAFFICKING)SO HE CAN AFFORD HIS HABIT, AND $5,000 DEEP INTO AN ATTORNEY. HE IS UNPLEASEABLE BECAUSE OF HIS ADDICTION. OXYCONTIN IS DANGEROUS AND HIGHLY ADDICTIVE AND I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO BE INVOLVED IN GETTING IT OFF THE STREETS.  
Donna Botham This drug has ruined my two childrens lives!!!!They can find it on the streets when ever they want and we live in a very small town. It makes me sick to know that the dealers will sell there oxycontin to children and dont give a shit what will happen to them just aslong as they get there drug money! I hate this drug and the dealers that sell it cause i know what it has done to my kids. so this proves that the people that get this drug from there doctors dont need it or they wouldnt be selling it to kids!!!!! A mother against Oxycontin. 
Ivy Bass This needs to banned now to many young adults lives are at risk, its to easy to get buy or steal I know of several young adults on it now and its ruining their lives  
Margo Chipman I have myself been addicted and fighting an addiction to Oxycontin for well over two years now. Many of my friends have lost their lives to this drug, it should be banned as soon as possible. 
Blake Lipscomb  
Cindy Serbula  
Anonymous My daughter became addicted to OxyContin and within 6 months we had to send her to a residential treatment center. We tried all levels of intervention. We then had to get a second mortgage to pay for this because insurance does not pay for this kind of treatment.  
Angel Bastien  
Anonymous RIP BT 
Steven Glass  
Samantha  
jennifer evans  
Lisa Vickery Pain clinics need to be strictly monitored and closed if found in violation of law. We cannot afford more lives ruined and lost. 
Anonymous One of my closet friends had been dealing with an addiction to Oxycontin and various other medications that are not prescribed to her for about a year (as far as I know, it could be longer). It has definitely taken its toll on her. She is not the same person she was when I met her. She used to be a fun-loving happy person who would always brighten up my day. Now I hardly talk to her since she has been consumed by this drug. Her whole life revolves around Oxy. Not only does she use it to cope with things that have happened in her life such as break-ups, death of a family member, and other family emergencies, she uses it to escape every day life. This is the worst thing that could have ever happened to her. She has missed out on several career opportunities because of this addiction. I am thankful that we have not lost her yet, but it is only a matter of time before this drug takes her life completely. It is astounding how many lives have been taken by this drug and it needs to be banned from this country as well as the rest of the world.  
Laura Barrett Enough is enough...ban oxycontin...stop killing our youth and destroying families. 
lori mittong I lost a stepson from an overdose. He was well on the road to recovery and clean for over a year. One night he fell short and relasped. That was the end of his life. This drug ruins families and destroys lives. I have an other stepson in recovery. Nothing can compare to the pain when you lose a child. Especially before their time. Matt we love you and miss you! 
richard slate  
Kasey Hanning Im a 17 year old girl. Im highly addicted to oxycontin. When will this shit ever stop? Oxycontin should be banned! If it doesn't help the pain, it will cause it. 
Kasey Hanning BAN OXYCONTIN!! 
Tim Carter  
Richard slate  
Lori Connor  
f.wegner  
Eileen Harris My son became addicted to this drug and almost lost his family as a result. I also have a friend who at this time is addicted, and she feels as though she will be forever that way. 
Lynn Taylor  
Corinne My best girlfriend Emily, called me today in tears for probably the thirteenth time in three years. She wants off the oxycontin-- she even moved from florida to ohio to detox but only found herself in as deep as she was before. Her boyfriend, Matt is in the same position. Still in florida, he seems to be able to still find it on the streets. My boyfriend, Andrew, is now in prison on a charge for trafficking, when really he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time during his uncle's arrest. He's doing time when he could be continuing his school work or building a life. My father is prescribed forty milligrams multiple times a day after a series of serious surgeries, my mother and him are getting a divorce because he has become so recklessly complacent. high all the time with out realizing it. at twenty three years old, i am off of oxycontin after a year of recreational use. the issue seems to be coming to a head: if this shit is so harmful, so addictive and warrants a serious jail sentence, why even bother producing it? 
Christina F. Davi My son passed away from an accidental overdose.  
Paulyn Scrivner Please ban this drug. It is the most dangerous substance I have ever known about. It seems like a cure all at first for people in pain. In the end, its victims become so addicted that it is literally impossible to stop taking. How many more individuals and families have to be destoyed by this stupid pill before we put an end to it? I have lost my one true love and my daughter's daddy. He is a good man and this drug just won't let him go. It's not right and its not fair and it has to end now! 
Elaine I lost my best friend to this awful drug and it happened in the span of 6 wks... lost her job, family, friends, and husband. It's so painful to watch someone go through this and not be able to do anything. She was a great mom and has now adondned her child. It wasn't another guy, just her addiction to this drug. I realize that everyone is capable of falling into this pattern, but it's a horrible sight to see. This drug should only be given within hospital walls.  
Marie There's more that I hate in this world right now more than this stupid drug. I hope we can put an end to it soon. It's more available than ever before and it's likely someone...your mother, daughter, son, friend, co-worker, boy/girl friend is relieving on this drug in their daily lives and will never reach out for help or admit it. :( 
Rick Closson We lost our son on December 12, 2008. He was neither an addict nor a drug abuser. He was taking oxycontin for pain medicine because of a bad back. He was schduled for back surgery two weeks prior to his death. He was 29 years old. His physician gave a presciption of 60 pills at a dosage of 80mg. It's unconscionable that a physician could give this kind of dosage to a person who wasn't addicted to it. It is our opinion that this drug should be administered as an IN PATIENT only in a hospital. Our first option is to get this drug off them market completely. This has been a tragic loss of a son, brother, and husband. Our loss is deep and permanent. 
Mark Purrington Still on the road to recovery 
Dawn Faust  
Markus Pettersson I'm 29 years old and live in Sweden. I looked this site up through facebook. The reason is that I yesterday stopped taking OxyContin which was prescribed to me because of my hip surgery about six weeks ago. I NEVER thought it would feel this way to get off these pills! The feeling of abstinence was awful! Note that I only took the pills for six weeks. I started sweating and freezing, got a "crawling" feeling under my skin and didn't know what to do... A very strange and inconvenient feeling! My doctor did not inform me about these effects and how addictive these pills are, he just kind of told me to stop taking them when I felt that the pain was starting to wear off. I didn't really take it so serious but I definitely think people should, and the doctors should consider prescribing an alternative analgesic medicine. /M 
Madison Farrell I too have lost my boyfriend to this awful drug. Thank you for your work to get rid of this selfish medication 
Matt Hunter On Facebook help the fight join "OXY MORONS JUST SAY NO TO YOU TO YOUR DOCTOR" 
Donna Sutley It is a disgrace that Dr's write these perscriptions so freely. They ruin peoples lives & destroy families. There needs to be much stricter regulations & penalteities to the dr.'s who abuse their power. 
susan klimusko Very addictive. Son who is addictive. I am a nurse and many move on to Heroin (cheaper)....Why are these drugs so available???????  
Anonymous  
sharon a wiley  
Lori Begtrup This drug needs to be only used in hospital settings and not to be prescribe as a pain killer. Too many people are suffering from the effects from this drug and its abuse. It is abused by too many people and cause people to steal and kill for this drug.  
Jennifer S. Romero What about Oxycodone?-You Know the 30's. They are as big a virus as Oxycontin was.  
siobhan hirrel  
yvonne marquardt i want this taken off the market highly adective 
Charles Burdette  
Amanda Burdette  
Loretta Bennett I had total hip replacement and oxycontin was used in or as the anestheti without my permission. When I awoke I was wild and halucinating that my family was scared to death and so was I. That was on October 20 and I am concerned how about how long I may have effects from this. Certainly this drug should not be used without the patient or families consent. Please let me know if I may have some lingering effects from this. 
Lora Hawkins Seen it ruin life for too many. 
Anonymous In my 18 years I have lived I have witnessed countless lives shatered by this evil drug. Being the son of an addict I have seen first hand the devastating effects addiction has not only on the user but on the families. I guess old purde would rather just turn a blind eye and reap the profits while the innocent suffer.  
Rick Cawrse I am aware of an individual who is addicted to OxyContin. This teenager is fighting the addiction, but the addiction has already torn he and his family to shreds. His plight is just a microcism of distress and pain that the citizens of the U.S. are feeling all across the nation and beyond. Please do our country and your own children a big favor and forever ban this drug!  
tnutty this drug has got to go. its ruined my life and now i have been trying everyday to rebuild my life, and fix things ive done wrong. and one more thing HEATHER G doesnt= what she said was a blatant lie. 
Anonymous  
Anonymous I believe oxycontin ruined my relationship with my fiance. I am not certain, but his behavior is erratic, with drastic mood swings. Their are physicians that prescribe this medication for pain that could absolutely be relieved by a different, less addictive drug. How does the doctor know FOR SURE that the patient they are prescribing to, is actually taking them and not selling them?  
Trisha Mitchell  
Paul Thompson  
Tiphiny Butler I think that ALL pills should be banned!!! People are dying and beoming hooked on them!!! They destory people and tear families apart. 
Anonymous I work in the treatment field in South Florida. So many of the addicts we see in treatment(those lucky enough to have made it to this point)are addicted to this drug. It's an epidemic,and something needs to be changed! 
Brandon Baumgardner I have seen this drug destroy too many close people too me. 
Deb Doolen  
Bianca Ratcliff  
Valeria Too bad this pain management doctors are so greed to perform small injections for the charge of thousands of dollars and in return prescribe 180 pills of OxyContin, the kid take 60 and sell 120 pills for $20/ pill. For me the doctor is the drug dealer, yesterday I told Florida Atlantic Orthopedics in Boca Raton my concerns about my 20 years old son abuse and the pain doctor just said "but he is in pain" needless to say that he is going to charge the car insurance thousands of dollars to inject my son's spine with some type of analgesic and in return promised my son that he can go there any time and get his supply. It is a mafia style operation and I would like to report this to the authority but I just don't know how. This doctor will lie and justified his prescription since pain is very subjected.I heard that a number of practitioners have ceased prescribing OxyContin and some pharmacies no longer stock it. As the FDA is charged with protecting public health by assuring drug safety, they should take the unequivocal stand of banning OxyContin.  
Casey Arnold  
William  
Lexi  
Stephenie  
Steve  
Kim  
Sierra Crites Lets get this drug out of here, it causes too many problems. We need to work together and do what it takes to keep this off the streets. 
Aleisha S. Paci  
marilyn Leggett  
Janet Wisner  
J.Newhouse  
Toni Houston  
Cassey Lynch  
Lora Van Sickle Here in Fayette County, Indiana, there is an epedemic with our young people and oxycotin, it is destroying a whole generation. We have had one overdose after another. Please,please do away with this drug, in my day the drug of choice was qualudes and they did away with it and I don't remember anyone oding or stealing and robbing for this drug. Oxycotin takes your soul and cosciense. 
Josef L  
Joelle Bejarano  
Mark Willemssen as a person who was addicted to Oxy I know the devastation this drug can cause 
jennifer quintero  
crystal creighton my town is dieing from oxycontin!! in 2010 8 prestins all over the world are going to be in my town, Huntsville on. Canada. if i could get enough people behind me we can tell them, show them what this drug is doing. i am on my 16 day and i still feel the withdraws. some days are better than othres. PLEASE help me save the lives in my town. They are worth saveing!!!!! 
Anonymous  
shari morrison my son is currently in rehab for his addition to Oxycontin.. I hate that drug and wish it never would have been made available to anyone but the "terminally ill"... 
Heather G I cant even begin to say how much this has affected my life. My boyfriend who is the love of my life is addicted to oxycontin. He wont admit it to anyone but everyone knows. We try everything in the world to show him we're here for him but its not enough. Im not a very strong person to have to deal with it and I dont know how I have managed this long. I cant do it anymore. He leaves for the army in Feb, so I know he wont be doing it anymore. But I am terrified of the withdrawal effects hes going to have once he cant get the drugs anymore..Please make this UNATTAINABLE...Not only that..he was never prescribed the drug..a stupid friend got him into it and now wants nothing to do with helping him. 
Danielle Hussey  
Stephen Ybarra I dont want to see anymore lives ruined by this drug 
Robert Roppo I'm sick of seeing friends being taken over by this drug. 
Jack Stafford As a recovered user I know how damaging OxyContin is to a person mentally and how fast it takes ahold of your life. I've seen so many of my friends swept up in this drug it makes me sick. There's nothing that could make me happier than supporting a cause to get this drug off the market and start giving innocent people their lives back. OxyContin is taking over an entire generation and its time somebody does something about it.  
Anonymous I have two kids by a man who is addicted to oxycontin!! They never see their father because of his addiction! A couple of months ago he overdosed on this drug but got to the hospital just in time to be saved!!There isnt enough room on this site to list what my kids have missed out on having a father and what the time that man has missed with his kids because of oxycontin! My kids do not get to see their father! He almost died! GOD created that man and his kids to be together! Please help save this man before its to late, because he certianly cant save himself from this awfull drug! Please!  
alex zeigerman  
Annette Boves Grasso I know 2 people that overdosed on oxycontin. I also know several people that have become addicted to oxycontin and it has ruined there lives. 
connie&joe roberts  
Lynne Politis I thik we have all lost enough children to this drug  
judith stewart  
Debbie England  
Tiffany Lucas  
Lorraine Warmington  
Thomas An Dr that knowingly prescribes Oxycotton, Valium and soma altogether should be persecuted. The Oxy is bad enough but when they have taken an oat to help people and the almighty $$$$$ is worth more to them them life they need to be put far far away and be charged with all these senseless deaths that they are causing. These pill mill need to be put out of business. What makes it worse is they sell the pill right out of the office no need to got to a pharmacy that seems a little shady in itself. How are they allowed to do that?  
Kathleen Kiefer My sons dr refuses to stopprescribing him the pills, he claims my son has a bad back. This is after I told the dr my son is addicted to them and is abusing the pills. 
MaryAnn Kessler I lost my 23 year old son who was my best friend, to an accidental overdose of OxyContin that was prescribed by 3 different doctors and never once were his blood levels monitored. Of the 7 lawyers that I contacted, not one would take the case. What more can I say.  
Derek Adams  
David James Lewis A long-time friend of mine, over 17 years, overdosed from oxycontin a little over a year ago. He purchased it from a dealer who was able to get the product from his mother who worked for a pharmacy. As a 23 year old musician, I have had several outlets to express my emotions. I have had the thought of trying to do something about it, but the only thing I have been able to accomplish is to write songs regarding my friend's tragic death. Thank you for taking the initiative to spread awareness for this epidemic. 
Hollie in memory of Daniel..... 
Bryn Shepherd My best friend struggled with it for 3 years, it broke up our friendship for a long time. He finally got help, he is doing incredibly well, we are better than ever, he has started a new happy and successful life, finally. 
Jeffrey Kirkman This stuff does nothing for pain, except double it when you try to stop taking it. Ban it now. 
Jaimi Durand  
Daniel T. Sears These Purdue crooks should be in prison. Where many of the consumers who took their products ended up. That's only fair. 
Anonymous You are all in my prayers who have lost someone to this horrible drug. my cousin tara is 23 and we almost lost her this weekend to it.. Thank God she is getting help after watching herself on a video her boyfriends asshole grandmother took of her going into cardiac arrest, instead of calling 911! 
Skylar hollifield It becomes a disease  
Kerriann Kada  
Adorna Murphy This is a drug that has destroyed my family!! We lost everything, our home,our cars,friends and some family. My daughter now realizes what has happened in her family life and worries everyday for her younger brother and sister that are in her father's care. I hate what it has done to her. Everyday I feel bad for her and only wish that she never had to see her dad withdraw or nearly kill her in a car accident. She is a good kid and never deserved to have this selfish disease in her life!  
Bridget Heidelbach  
donna wolford I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE DESTROY THEIR LIVES WITH OXYCONTIN. YOUNG PEOPLE LOOK OLD. CHILDREN RAISED WITHOUT PARENTS BECAUSE OF THIS DRUG. THE ABUSE HAS GOT TO STOP. 
David Boyd  
john p. macedo i can only hope this ban goes thru so we can save some lives and families.i've personally battled the addiction. 
Jon Closson This drug single handedly changed my family's life forever. I lost my brother on Dec. 12 2008 because of this FDA approved drug. Joel was just 11 months two weeks older than me and did not live to see his 30th birthday on Dec. 29th. I long for him with every breath I take and every beat of my heart and would give anything to have him back. My brother was neither a drug abuser nor an addict, I feel for those who are. He died in his sleep a week and a half before getting his back fused because of a disc problem. The only thing I have now are beautiful memories of my brother which is not enough and the bile I taste everyday when I think about oxy and the detrimental affects it has on my life. I would love to see the pain and suffering that oxy causes thousands of families like mine come to an end. It cannot happen soon enough.  
joey roberts  
Dana Murphy OxyContin distroyed my marriage  
Steven Carey  
Karen Curran My family has been directly affected by the use and abuse of oxycontin prescribed by a doctor in Massachusetts. My brother lost his battle with the addiction on June 19th, 2009 at the very young age of 43.  
Anonymous My mother, a grandmother of three, struggled with Oxy addiction for over three years before her final overdose was fatal...she died on Christmas morning 2008, my sister found her when she went to check on her...the pain this medication has caused just the friends and family of my mother has been horrible. Her addiction and death has affected so many lives and her addiction ruined and took hers. Watching the addiction progress, her becoming a different person and over course her ultimate, untimely death has been unbearable. The doctors are being lied to by the makers of this drug. Due to "clever" (DECEPTIVE) marketing,so many doctors believe that Oxycontin is LESS DANGEROUS than other prescription drugs. Christmas 2009 will be our first Christmas without my mother and the first anniversary of her death 
Melanie J Lanzo  
Anonymous Please let me know of any successes, as I am myself struggling with oxycodone, trying to avoid more than 60mg/day, and titrate down soon before I end up with a major problem here. By the way, isn't there at least as big a problem from primary physicians and surgeons prescribing this stuff as from "pain management" clinics?? Have had 2 major surgeries now in past 16 months, and I guess I have more self-control than I thought? Anyway, the more I read about this stuff, the more it just totally blows my mind. How is it that this drug(s) is still on the market anywhere in US? Why isn't oxycodone being treated the same as oxycontin in terms of attempts to outlaw/ regulate? I have a very small service business. If I operated it in a manner approaching that of Purdue Ph, I'd have been arrested, fined, shut-down, tried, convicted, etc. Again, why are they allowed to continue their practices/ why is this drug still available? Is part of the issue one of because most of the oxy deaths involve polysubstance use? I have spoken with various individuals, but none yet willing to meaningfully address issue. Somebody talk to me, please. Thanks--  
Ed Carroll  
Maureen Adams  
susan l parker  
Denise Lego I am the mother of a child who died at the age of 28. He had been prescribed Oxycontin for his pain. He was Quadriplegic, and suffering from pain, however he tried to go through withdrawals and clean out his system for a doctors reassessment and the pain clinic. Day 2 of withdrawals, he must have suddenly had an unbearable indefinable psychosis, and took his own life with a shotgun to the head. I had talked to him 3 days before and he was fine, he did not tell me that he had run out of Oxycontin then, and thought he could ride this out I guess. I buried my son, who had battled so hard to keep his spirits up, and keep his own apartment through the paralysis. We did not see it coming, He did not see it coming, and this drug kills, does not care who or when it takes someone but it will take them. This was my baby, youngest son full of energy, spirit, creative, and wise very wise, and it killed him. If only I would have known, I would have figured something out. My question I guess is, how can the pharmaceuticals justify all of these deaths......all young kids ...........all in the prime of their lives....... A grief stricken and shocked mother. It has been over 4 years now, since I lost my beloved son Levi. I miss Levi everyday, every minute, and I want my son back. I want Levi in my arms to restore, and make well, and I cannot. I want to here him say “Hey Mom”, and call me with some good news, and this will never happen again in my lifetime. Levi, my Dear Son you are so loved and so missed. Mom  
cindy sizemore  
Anonymous  
Chris M. OxyContin was what got me into Heroin. If it was banned we would see a huge decrease in the use of opiates. There are many other types and forms of medication that can treat pain without the risk of addiction and bodily harm. 
Jason  
Laura Buchanan  
Linda T Lovett I sister went to prison because of her accidental accidental addiction. My brother-in-law died from an overdoes of his addiction he had no strength to combat. Both were good, caring people with tremendous physical pain. It is tragic! Heart breaking. 
John R. Garland  
Anna Larson I have a friend who's life has been devestated with this medication. It is addidtive, Please take notice to havac this drug creates... Thank you Anna Larson 
Sandra T. Daugherty I was just released from prison having served 7 years for a crime related to being physically addicted to Oxycontin. I was not a bad person. Before becomming accidentally addicted, I was a hard working middle class american dealing with chronic pain associated with degenerative disk disease, fibromyalgia, and arthritis. All I use today is an anti-inflamitory drug. I live every day of my life in chronic pain but I will never ever take another drug to ease my pain. I'd rather have chronic pain than be a slave to a horrible drug like Oxycontin. I lost my beloved husband to accidental Oxycontin overdose while I was incarerated. PLEASE BAN OXYCONTIN except for use by terminally ill patients. It is evil! The company that makes it is evil! 
Anonymous I lost a family member due to Oxy Contin. She was only 22 and had a beautiful baby girl that was 4 years old. She was on drugs since she was in middle school and it kept on getting worse, she eventually moved up to pills. She was in rehab 3 different times, her last time out we all thought that she was going to be free, but we were all wrong. She got in October and died January 1, 2009. She was back with her old bad friends and caused her her life.  
shura avaloff i've stood aside, watching 13 year olds consuming ridiculous amounts of this drug for minor pain following surgery and then spending their high school years buying it from their friends, whose parents also received it for minor pain following surgery - fast forward - that same 13 year old is now 21, a full blown addict and living on the street.....disowned by his family, by his friends, by society, by the same doctors that are prescibing it for minor pain following surgery....makes total sense, right? 
Holly Lorini This drug has taken my son down a path of destruction. He has just gotten out of jail after a year. He was charged with trafficing and was facing a minimum of 3 years in prison. This past year is the first time in many,many,years that I could sleep knowing he was safer in a terrible place like jail than being able to continue to use Oxycontin. Now he is out & my nightmare begins,he can't stay away from it even after being clean for a year. THAT IS HOW ADDICTING IT IS!!!!! How many drug executives are getting rich while destroying human lives and those around them? How many more children must die for this drug to be banned! STOP IT NOW!! 
Deb Sullivan  
Jennifer Hughes  
K. Holleran  
Lee Rickard  
Maryann Rondinelli  
Donato Rondinelli  
Anonymous I agree,..Period. 
Ashley This horrific drug shocks me and i hope that this will make it be banned officially. I will keep this drug out of my life 
Holly  
Gina DiSera It is about time this issue is approached and this horrific drug is removed from our market!!! 
Jimmy Ooten  
Joanne Blain  
Anonymous I learned about this petition following a wonderful, and moving presentation by Sandra Kresser. Thank you for the work this organization is doing.  
Anonymous I know first hand the horrible epidemic our community is battling due to the addiction of oxycontin. Some of the $634 million in fines should go to programs to help these addicts . So many lives are being destroyed by this very drug!! 
Victoria Fisher  
Steven Gerard Huff My Kim knows some one that died from a oxycotin over dose. 
yinet  
Teresa Dillenbeck This drug has killed friends and is destroying family members. Stop allowing it to be so freely given. Thank you... 
Christine Falowski This drug has caused so much pain & heartache to families.Please,Please do away with it!!There are other options!!! Purdue is making millons while others are losing their lives...money is not everything!! 
Sharon M. Hazel I have lost a loved one to the abuse of being addicted to oxycontin, He was addicted to pain killers for his back injury and this was easy for him to get after he could not be perscribed anylonger from his Dr.. We miss him dearly and i would not like anyone to have to go thru what we did with my cousin.  
Denise McReynolds  
Maureen Kerwick  
Karleen Basch  
danielle restivo Please get this drug that every 20 something year old is addicted to..off of the streets. Its disqusting how many people in my life are fighting the battle of oxycoton.  
melanie rife I have to say that there are a lot of people that do not need to hear comments like yours, Lewis. When doctors started writing these scripts they did not tell nor lead up to that this was so addicting. There are many other medications that doctors can give to you other then Oxy's. Doctors do give it out like candy. I know a few myself. They are willing to get caught if it happens. They make money and get kick backs. I know people that have had a pinched nerve and got on Oxy. I'm sorry that you feel you feel that it is okay for even cancer patients to be on it. What happened to all the other drugs that have worked so well all these years? I went in with a pulled muscle in my back and the E.R. doctor gave me Oxycodone. Even though I know you are not trying to be mean....I seen My brother fight this addiction for twelve years.We went through many day's and night's watching him loose weight, steal, talk out of his head, and finally it took his life. He struggled and wanted so bad to be off of Oxycontin. You may not see it a lot where you are. We see it a lot here!!! In my parents sub division about 20% of the people there are addicted to it.It is like Herion and as we all know if you try Herion one time you are lucky to ever recover. I hope you never personally ever have to go through what some of these families on here have went through and until you do you will never understand!!!!!  
Lorene Lyon  
Jon Mann I began experimenting with oxycontin my senior year in high school, became addicted in a short time, and it ruined my life, I continued to use it until I was 26. I've lost countless friends to it. I have been clean for a year now. 
Graham Sargent quit pushing poison this is horrible stuff!! 
Sean Byram  
Loralee Syvitski LeRossignol To many people I know are hooked on and dying from this drug its time to do something about it. 
annelise simes  
Heidi Specht One of my best friends is now on his second trip to rehab to get clean from using Oxy. This is a problem everywhere but take a look at the Pacific Northwest. Olympia, Washington is one of many places who had numerous cases of recent OxyContin addiction. This drug needs to be unattainable, and specifically illegal. Its time we ask ourselves what's more important .... more money going to the drug companies or the life of a human being? 
payton boyd  
Linda Pierce  
Tammy Brown  
stella It destoys peoples/families lives. It should only be given to terminally ill patients if it makes their last days more comfortable other than that it should never be used. Doctors who over prescribe are no better than the drug dealers on the street maybe worse.  
chelsea cobbley My mother is addicted to oxycontin and has been since i can remember along with many other pills like morphin. i love HER to death, but this is not her and i dont love the person she is right now. she doesnt remember that my 10 month old baby is the age she is she thought she was 2. she falls asleep mid speach and mid meal. we even have her on camera and she still denys it all. 
Eddie Phanichkul  
Jake Lane I am against the abuse of prescription drugs and most narcotics in general, but OxyContin is by far the worst in my experience. One of my best friends became so despondent while on the drugs that he drove for two states, pulled over on the side of the road and ended his life. Granted, further problems exacerbated this reaction, but I believe if he had sought help instead of self-medicating, he might very well still be here. Thank you for this opportunity. 
Jen Rickard I have very stong feelings that are against this drug, It destroys lives and families . I am the youngest of three children and grew up alwats feeling so loved and protected by my sister and brother.My brother had a long battle with drugs and alcohol and he made a huge effort to clean himself up He was almost back to the sam guy I remember growing up with always by my side, the one night he took half of an oxy and did not wake up the next morning, I woke up that morning to my dad screaming like I have never heard in my life and I ran out to the kitchen to find 2 police officers there telling me that my brother had past away through the night. I thought it was a bad dream and he would come walking in the door, I now have excepted his death but still wish I could just talk to him sometime or see him the pain of missing him will never go away!!! I got married a year and a half after my brother past away and a year into my marriage I found out that my husband had been using this drug since just after my brther had past. We separated after 15 months of marriage and he went to rehab for 2 days and sign him self out. My husband was my best friend since we started high school and he completely changed or the drug changed him I had no idea who he was anymore. There are so many teenagers in the town where I live that are experimenting with this drug it is so scary. Something has to be done!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! HOw many people have to experince the death of a loved one because of this drug for things to change!! 
Dennis Lopez  
Riley Ezzo Pills destroyed my friend's life. I watched him become a different person and now its too late for anyone to help him because he has passed away. Its unbelievable how easy it is for people to get their hands on this drug. It is synthetic heroin and that is what people need to realize.  
Jonathan Vest  
Kallie Hall  
Ringo Unborn babies are also affected by this drug when the mothers that take it while during pregnancy, birth defects will also be on a rise if this drug continues to be on the market. Even in First Nations this problem exists. It has to stop, too much lives have been taking by this drug and has affected a lot of us in a negative way. Get rid of Oxys!  
gary peers how long do things have to go before they change,these drugs are wrong and should be stopped yesterday.  
KRISTIN LOMANNO TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR LIVES TO THIS DRUG. I HAVE SMALL CHILDREN THAT I WORRY FOR THEIR FUTURE DUE TO THIS POWERFUL DRUG. IT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I PRAY TO GOD THAT THIS DRUG EPIDEMIC STOPS.  
Aja Bell  
Marsha LaRue i have known many of my daughters friends who have OD on this drug it kills!!!!! hooray for this chance thank-u 
Carol Lido  
Piper Thompson Here is my question; where are the mentioned drugs ORIGINALLY coming from?? Why is it that the real source of this enormous issue is never taken down for their involvement?? Why on earth would the government keep allowing something to be produced, in such huge quantity, that wrecks SOOOO many people’s lives?? I can pretty much guarantee that there is a significantly less amount of people that use these medications as directed, than there are people who become either addicted to them, begin selling them, or both. Who is really responsible here? Why not take jobs away from these people and close these companies down?? With all of the medical miracles, I am SURE that there are ways of making a drug that can still take the pain away from the ones that really need it, that will not be worth so much to the rest of the world. Ponder that for a second…. Now tell me what is becoming of this country…  
Brianna Cline I am grateful I never touched it, I've seen it do a lot of damage in a lot of peoples' lives. I don't think people realize what they're getting themselves into when they start. 
Seang Sam I've sacraficed so much of my life because of this terrible drug. My heart goes out to those who need such strong opiates, but until we can find a way to regulate this situation better I am in strong support of banning oxycontin. Too many lives have been destroyed and lost due to OCs. 
Anonymous  
Mary F. Ninesling  
Amber Lurry  
Micah Cantrell This drug is just evil. There are other pain killers one can prescribe.  
Debbie Kathelene I am totally for banning oxycontin, although I feel that lorcet, lortab, vicodin, norco etc. pain meds are all the same results eventually. It must start with the Dr.'s as they are the ones perscribing the meds and most are unaware that the person they are perscribing them to are selling them for money to buy other drugs.  
Robert Falzon My name is Bob Falzon and I strongly agree with this petition. I lost 4 years of my life due to oxycontin. I was never percripted them but they were easily available on the streets. I have many friends that are still addicted to this evil drug and a one has died from it. I've been off oxycontin for over 8 months now and still every time I see someone doing them I still want them almost as bad as I did when I was addicted to them. This drug is highly addictive and is a threat to anyone who comes in contact with them. My sister is addicted to them aswell. She now has a criminal recond and has been outcasted my most of my family.She no longer has her daughter and has lost everything that she owned because of this little pill. It seems silly eh. Such a little thing can ruin a life in a matter of months. I am thrilled to hear about this petition and I strongly urge you to tell everyone you know about it and get them to help fight this cause. Many lives depend on it! Thanks for your time. Bob Falzon 
Bonnie Mussallem No comment - I think this group actually speaks for itself-and although I don't know anyone who has had a tragic ending from this drug, I know people who are addicted, and it's a bad thing, but denial is a part of their problem. Thank you for doing this. 
Anonymous This drug made mine and my boyfriends lives spin out of control. We lost everything we had: our jobs, home and money. He is now in prison for 5 years because of this drugs and our lives will never be the same. Please get rid of this 
Chelsea My grandfather was diagnosed with throat cancer over a year ago. When he was in recovery, because of the pain from procedures, he was prescribed Oxycotin. He became distance from the family and never left his room. He became angry and resentful and would make comments about dying. He is now withdrawing because his doctors will no longer supply him with the drug. This has change his outlook on life and changed his personality for the worse. Please help to ban this drug. 
oliver handley  
Roger A. Steeves  
Diane Torrey My husband and I are in our 50's and have buried many young adults from using this drug, unexceptable! Synthetic heroin. 
GAIL CRAWLEY  
Viola Tresham  
maranda dillenbeck My grandfather had cancer and they perscribed him oxycontin for the pain. He beat the cancer but he is now addicted to the drug and stays in his room n sleeps most the day instead of enjoying his recocery. This is not right 
Alexis Franzi I have lost a friend to OxyContin and I want to do everything in my power to prevent this from happening to someone else. Rest in Peace, Craig Friedlander. We love you. 
Nicole Ahlgren I have lost a friend to this awful drug and right now I'm also close to loosing the most important person in my life. But he's trying so hard and I know he's going to make it through. Stay strong if you have any sort of addiction.  
meghan murphy thank you for taking the initiative. lives depend on this. too many have been lost already. i fully support the efforts you are making. God Bless You!!! 
Leslie Dillenbeck  
jessica walker This drug is too easy for people who are not in pain to get. Twenty-somethings with a backache do not need Oxycontin. It should only be prescribed for people facing imminent death, like cancer patients. 
April Rager I would love nothing more to see this drug banned. I have lost so many friends to this drug and my family was very close to losing me as well. It is the worst drug the FDA could have ever manufactured. Hopefully, we get enough signatures for them to wake up and take action before more people die or are put in prison. 
Nicole Daly I know too many people that have either died or are now addicted to OxyContin or even Heroin as a result of prescription drug use. We cannot trust the doctors or pharmacists to hold tighter reins when prescribing seeing as some of them are involved in the Black Market OxyContin trade. (i.e.-Doctors and Pharmacists arrested in NJ(?)) Anyhow, getting it off the market will be hard seeing as the pharmaceutical companies are so greedy, but we can try.  
Anna Marie Canora  
Julie Newman I lost one son by suicide because he was unable to get off drugs. He started with Oxy's then moved on to heroin because it is cheaper. This is most common. My other son overdosed twice on oxy's. If I had found him 15 min later the second time he overdosed the paramedics said he would have been dead. This incident still haunts me as it was very recent ago. I have 2 friends that died from accidental overdoses from oxy's. This is a very dangerous drug. 
Tony V  
Erika  
Kathy Budzeak  
michael Deaton My brother died from an overdose of Oxycontin and almost another brother 
George Fredericks  
Nancy Pompeo Your drug has done so much damage to the young people of this country. I have 2 children who tried this and now have become blown out heroin addicts.  
TOMMY PETTAS  
Cara Wells  
Melissa Warner This drug destroyed my family... I feel like there's no coming back once you become addicted; all the people I know who used oxycontin are either battling a terrible addiction, in jail or dead.  
april b I hate this drug! It killed my boyfriend! It needs to be banned and save some lives! 
Stephen T. Hibbard I have never seen a person actually come clean off of Oxycontin. All of my friends who got into it are either dead or dying. I lost the most beautiful girl ever to that terrible drug. Her name was Alissa Burton from Manomet Massachusetts. She was great. Then she fell into the throes of OC. It was only a matter of time. People call Marijuana a gateway drug, well OC is a fast-lane drug. Once you take it, you are on the fast lane to being out of money and only able to afford Heroin. It is the expressway to heroin. Ban this disgusting epidemic, and ensure no pharmaceutical company ever makes a drug this strong ever again. Not to be produced by companies with their roots in the USA. 
Kimberly Bass  
Anonymous my son was a fan of oxycontin and passed away at the age of 30 years old because of a addition to this monster. 
Shana Shaheen This drug nearly killed me. By the grace of God I was able to stop however my friends were not as lucky... I fully support anyone that wants to get these "killers" off the market!! 
Anonymous I have never seen a Drug that is So Devastating (& so Available)! This Drug Completely Destroys Lives & Families. It Hurts to even think about. It doesn't help anyone!! It should be Banned & the Formulas Destroyed  
Rachael Bibbey  
elizabeth walls  
Anonymous  
Jennifer Barone My mother has been on this drug since the day it had come out. She now smokes 3 packs of cigarettes a day which comes out to be 22 dollars alone. She has days where she goes from happy to screaming and says she has to stay on these pills for pain yet she does not lose any of the weight she is caring. Her doctor gives them to her like candy in which she now also sells them. I had lost my job due to being laid off and now I have to live back at home with my 5 year old son. She is always drugged up and out of it and still drives like that no matter what anyone says to her about this she just complains of pain yet she won't get any surgery for 19 long years she has been on some type of pain medication and it has effected her mental health and physical health.  
Jill Angermeier Patella  
Natalie Zeigerman I was addicted to Oxycontin myself for six years, and the whole time I was on it, nothing but bad things happened to me. I mean really terrible things. What I put my family through, and they are still by my side. As of yesterday, November 9, 2009 I have two months clean and looking forward to a new life! My regards go out to all the families who are dealing with these issues, or have been negatively affected by this drug. This drug really should be terminated, or only used for what it was created for, i.e. cancer patients, patients who are truly suffering. 
Jessica Crown my ex boyfriend was addicted to oxycontin for about 2 years and i watched him deterierate slowly. he faded away from family, friends, and me. he lives a hard life now, addicted to heroin and oxycontin, and it wouldnt be like this if he didnt become addicted. 
Ashley B  
B. Jonathan Krieg  
Clark Brizendine  
Tracey-Mae Hackert-Sheppard  
Leeann Sheppard  
lisa hoffman  
Anna DeGeorge I did not loose a love one but I went through a living Hell watching my daughter and step daughter addicted to this drug. My daughter went into a rehab twice within a year and half. thank God that she is off this awful addicting medication. I would love for this medication to put off the shelves or something has to be monitored with much restrictions.She lost a few friends to this drug. i have seen families broken because of this drug. this is the acceptable drug since is dispense by medical doctor. To those that have lost someone to this drug my deepest respect goes out to you because it not only destroy your love one but also a part of you.their is not a day goes by that I am reminded of her past and how easy she can get hooked on this medication all over again but through the Grace of GOD I give HIM the GLORY that she is still her......once again my deepest sympathy to you all...I stand 110% and I will be apart of this medication including xanax get it off the market.  
alisha  
Deborah K. Nelis on aug.11,2009 after talking to his uncle about his struggle with drugs my 17yr. old son took a over-dose and hung himself..we had moved to florida after our home in indiana had flooded we had been here 1yr. nick had left school and was working at a restrantunt/bar...i received the toxicology report today amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, carisoprodol, cocaine, metabolites opiates...nick was my youngest son he had three brothers tony 37,ron 35, corey 29, nick had one sister adrianne 30. there are not words to describe our loss. in 1997 i lost my oldest sister to prescription drug over-dose.when heard that in the last 6mos.florida alone had written 3.5 billion oxycontin pill i felt sick to my stomach a blind man can see this is a money maker for more than just the companys and doctors; how many kids must die?  
Lynn Taylor  
Bill gallagher Oxycontin is a very addictive drug and people who abuse it feel less shameful because it's a legal perscrition drug. When oxycontin takes it toll and runs your bank accounts dry you turn to heroin there in oxycontin is "rich mans heroin " it's is a life taking drug which more patients sell their prescription at steep prices because of it's addictive behavior. And in my own honest opion as oxycontin leads to heroin addiction percocete leads to oxycontin addiction. Percocete is only a foot step or so behind oxy's.  
Arianna Webber  
Aaron Pomerinke I know many friends and family who are or have been addicted to Oxycontin. The affects to their lives and their families are just as bad as or worse than I have seen with Meth, Cocaine, Heroin, etc. It is a horrible drug and should be banned completely. 
Angela Oldale  
darren morrisseau  
Vicky Kennedy  
Whitni Get rid of this epidemic. It would be so simple to stop distributing this nasty drug. Even people who don't abuse it and take it based on doctor's orders still get addicted. Make the world a better place and take away this horrid temptation so many people lose their lives over. 
Alexandra Smith  
Anonymous  
Mary Holt  
jacqueline peltzman  
Madek Orth  
Ronnie Adelman  
Terry Jones  
Ronnie Adelman  
April Bergmann I lost my BEST FRIEND to Roxy Contins 3 years ago. She was an amazing, beautiful person, but the drug got the best of her in the end. To all those people who have lost someone they truly love, my heart and prayers go out to you. To all those people who are using, please see that it is a destructive path that only leads to one thing. 
Andrea Cardinalli I really hope we can fight this together. I hear the pain of family who have lost loved ones to oxycontin and the parents like my self that don't know whats going to happen next with our children. 
Elizabeth MacDonald This drug has ruined my older brother's life for the past 10 years. Also, was the death of my sister-in-law. It is the devil. Someone has got to stop this from being produced more or nothing will change even people who need them for cronik pain are addicted and have to face rehab over this overly addictive drug. There has got to be another way. If not my big brother will probably be next... 
GEORGE ADAMS  
john sullivan this drug is evil 
Margaret Morales  
Phyllis M Murphy  
Tania Jones I hope this works. Good luck!! 
Brittany I lost a friend that wasn't too close to me, but it still tore me to pieces to learn that he had overdosed. I was aware he had a problem, but I wasn't aware how horrible it was. I've also witnessed quite a few other people who have had this addiction for a while. It makes me so sad to see how these people have turned out. 
Laura Graham Oxycontin is a very dangerous drug, too dangerous to be put in the hands of so many people who do not know it's true power. It is not worth the little pain relief that it provides for some. It is not worth the lives it has ruined, the families it has torn apart, and the deaths it has caused.  
Dawn Ashcroft Oxies affect more than just the users themselves. Communities, families, friendships, and relationships are torn apart for something so petty. 
Darian Stoetzel My dad passed away almost five years ago after getting addicted to Oxycontin when he broke his neck and had to take it, this stuff is too powerful for its own good. 
Jefton Wood This terrible drug has killed some good friends of mine. It needs to be banned! 
Sherrie Bass As a home care nurse, i have seen patients go through the terrible addiction and withdrawl. They tell me stories about how people steal it from them to get high. And everyone knows multiple people who are addicted. It is so abundant. It is so out of hand. What has the world come to? We are supposed to help people, not create addicts! 
Anonymous  
Anonymous My 29 year old has suffered since he was 15 years old with addiction to this drug. He just got out of jail..again..and every day i wonder if I'm going to get the "call". My baby's life was ruined because of this drug & how easy it was to get it through "pain management clinics" 
Brooke Farino-Zaleski  
Anonymous  
Valerie L McGinnis  
charlene rosemond Oxycontin has ripped my family apart..because of this drug my children cannot grow up with both of their parents together. 
Dawn Sills Colescott This drug has killed many people.Take it off the shelves now !!!  
kara dewitt I almost lost my only brother to this horrible pill. I HAVE lost numerous friends to overdosing on this. I refuse to lose another loved one to this and will do everything I can to stop this.  
Anonymous  
Erin McMahon Well I never lost a loved one but my cousins are royally screwed up because of them! they have a chemical imbalance because of them. I say They because they r twins and 1 did it then the other not to long after 
Larrel Skillen pleasee ban this drug. 
Joyce Bencomo  
Amy Beaver This drug has destroyed lives and will continue to do so on a level that is to great to allow. It is past time for this Oxycontin to be banned. 
Sydney Martel rest in peace to all the people who have passed from the use of oxycontin.. (L) 
Anonymous Well, my brother almost overdosed on three whole bottles of them, and when he took them he went CRAZYYY. :|! not a good site to see. :(  
james mcmanus the addiction to this is similiar to crack or cocaine,it does do alot of damage to ur body,and there is no correct way of using this drug,one,two,three,and than u need more and will hurt u financally,physically and emotoinally,and it is hard to ur family and friends to accept this... 
Cassandra macon my son Christopher is 22 and is addicted to oxycontin and he was on life support and almost died but he hasn't stop taking them.... and he thinks because they are a prescribtion it is ok... and they are not even his prescribtion.. Randleman nc 27317 is one of the worst places using oxycontin by young adult to get high...  
Brandy Lord I cannot tell you how strongly I feel for this. My mother was prescribed Oxycontin for pain and only took it one time because of the effects she began to feel from the drug. I work at a school and just had a parent call me crying because she could not pay the tuition for her child because she had become addicted. This is a ridiculous pandemic that can and should be prevented. 
Sherry LaMar I have not physically lost a child or loved one from Oxy but my son almost died from this. He has been battling with this addiction on and off for years. I had to drive him to the hospital from an overdose and the hospital told he and I that he almost died. He was fading in and out of conciousness and stopped breathing many times on the way to the hospital. It was the hardest thing to watch, our children are not supposed to die before us. Then he was on the placebo to help him ween himself off it and he overdosed of that also. He is now battling this addiction once again. I was taking him to the clinic for his doses, and did all that I could. Called around for anyone that could help with referrals or anything. This drug does not discriminate. We as parents do all that we can to try to help. My son came to me the first time and told me that he had this addiction. So, I dove into all the resources that I could find. There just isn't enough. Then the issue that bothers me is that the doctors are willing to prescribe these pain pills and many others and once a person becomes addicted, there are no resources. And especially when there is no health care available. Companies make it so hard for young adults to get affordable health care with all the financial responsibilities they are faced with starting out on their own. My son goes to college, works part time, lives on his own. It is hard for them to pay for the help that they need to get off this and other drugs.  
Erica My sister has never been perscribed Oxycontin, but was admittably addicted to the drug! She was in an accident that nearly killed her over a deal gone bad, almost leaving my neice without a mother. She has used since then. She moved from AK to KS after the accident and stayed clean for a while, but she is having no problem getting a hold of the drug in a completly different state thousands of mils away I would say thats a problem! I have reasearched this drug and what it can do! I understand there are lagidimit reasons for someone needing to take this drug, but even some of them become addicited!! I just think that we can come up with something better that doesn't have the negative affects Oxy has! 
sharon sparks I have already signed this petition. However I would just like to say that as a mother who has a child addicted to this deadly drug my heart goes out to all who have been effected by this. I would like to leave my email address for anyone that would like to contact me for anyreason. I have found that talking with other people who understand what I am giong through has helped me so much. When I found out what was going on with my child I promised him and myself that I would do everything in my power to help him. He has been in treatment for 10 months. Now I would like to help others. My email address is sparks2sharon39@yahoo.com. If you have any questions or just need someone to talk to please contact me I would love to hear from you and how this drug has changed you. God knows it has changed me. GOD BLESS YOU ALL! 
Shay Lesko Please remove Oxycontin from the market. How many families have to lose children, husbands, wives, mother, fathers, sisters and brothers? I am the Mother of four children, two of which are addicted to Oxycontin "Roxies". It has destroyed our lives. I cannot attend one more funeral for one more teenager or young adult due to Oxycontin. The fear of my phone ringing and it being the police, the jail, the morgue or the hospital is a reality that I live with everyday. I pray it is the jail. As long as they are alive I have a small glimmer of hope that I may be able to save them from this nightmare. Please the facts are in. I understand that this drug is a big money maker for the government and Purdue. Apparantly they aren't losing any sleep at night. Purdue Pharma and the Government are legalized drug dealers. Since when did this become okay in the United States of America? It is time we took a stand and take our children back from the hands of these drug dealers. The ones that are destroying our children with their legalized Heroin. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! 
Gay Hanson Please ban Oxycontin! 
cathy martin before the next person dies and a family is thrown into turmoile plesa ban this drug 
Melodi Dugan  
David O'Malley  
Joan Pfaff These drug is a scourge on our society. It creates far more pain that it has relieved. The manufacturers are akin to the tobacco executives in that they knowingly promoted and distributed a product they knew was addictive, and did so without hesitation all in the name of profit. It's time we Americans took a stand against harmful or addictive products. We wouldn't allow a car that spewed pollution into our environment to keep operating, we wouldn't stand for a factory that dumped dangerous pollutants into our rivers, then why would we allow a pharmaceutical company to continue to produce a product that has caused so many lives to be lost or ruined, and turn a blind eye. Yes, it's a product that's prescribed by a doctor, who we have all believed to adhere to the Hippocratic Oath, "First do no harm". Clearly in the instance of Oxycontin that was not a creed they followed, either knowingly or unknowingly. Some doctors have even admitted to having addictions themselves.  
Randall Ellis May I myself am addicted to oxycotin as I type this and I wish they would ban it because I think it is an awful drug. With a ban on it I would be able to contine my abuse of the drug and will be able to quit 
Lynn Reeves Please take this drug off the market and get rid of all the pain clinics and doctors that are making money off our children. This is an epidemic. 
Rick Ermatinger  
Mark G Grizzly My name is Mark. Im 28, I have a Bone Marrow Disease (PNH) and im hopelessly addicted to Oxycontin.. I've suffered from extreme pain for around 11 years and my condition was un-diagnosed for 6 years.. In 2005 i was finally diagnosed and that same day i was given a prescription for Vicoden (5/500) with 5 refills.. Over time they stopped working, my insurance was canceled and i had to resort to buying the pills off of the streets.. When i started to purchase the drugs ilegally i decided to take the next logical step and move to a stronger and more available drug - OXYCONTIN (80mg). I started off low and now im taking 240mg to 320mg daily.. This drug has definetly ruined my life!! I have nobody but myself to blame and for the longest time i made a million excuses for using. I've made friends and family suffer because of my usage (especially my Girlfriend Diana, who's dealt with my B.S. for 6 years now).. My story about prescription drug abuse is way too long to document (i'd have to write a book) but only recently ahs it gotten as bad as it is now.. In June 2009 i got extremely sick and had to be hospitalized for 12 days. During my stay everything got behind and i ended up losing my car, my apartment - My online Amazon store was temporarily shut down and i had to move back into my dads.. Life is VERY HARD RIGHT NOW.. Im not sure what i truly think about Oxycontin.. Im still addicted to it, but i REALLY want to get off.. On Friday (2 days ago) i finally went to the doctors. I went to get a refernce from a family physician so that i can start to see an oncologist again. I started to explain my situation to the doctor and i BROKE DOWN and started crying harder than i have in over 15 years (at least) - i was a MESS (and still am). I told the doctor EVERYTHING! I asked for Suboxene, but he said he couldnt prescribe it to me. I couldnt even talk because i was sobbing so hard. The doctor (Dr. Gordon) looked me in the eye and told me that he would do everything in his power to help me, and unfortunatly he had to write me a prescription for 60 - 80mg Oxy's. I know that ALOT of people call the Doctors "Drug Dealers" and "Pushers" but thats NOT TRUE!! Its the patients that request the meds. BE HONEST PEOPLE.. The doctors (90% of them) became doctors because they want to help. I know that it broke his heart to write that prescription for me, and it broke my heart to take it.. Thats what its come down to. Oxycontin is an AWFUL DRUG.. I know that i need it (or something) because im in horrible pain, BUT this particular drug is such a double edged sword. The Doc knows that im so far gone that NOT prescribing it would cause me to go through HELL - than theres the problem with the Pharmacies.. Even with a prescription it cost me over $900 to fill it.. That same prescription has a $4800.00 Street Value.. Thats why people who are prescribed it sell it off. With the Economy as bad as it is, people are desperate and the profits are so high that they cant say no (with Insurance the prescription would have only been $2.00 - thats $4798.00 profit).. The only time that people realise the gravity of the situation is when something tragic happens. Just look through all of these stories.. Countless people have died, countless people have resorted to crime - stealing from family, friends. Prostitution, suicide.. People who lead straight lives end up selling their meds for quick money and get busted, then end up with 10+ year jail sentences (then their families suffer). Its a VISCIOUS CYCLE THAT WILL NEVER END!! This drug's main problem is that when people like myself who are in legitimate pain start taking it, then things get out of ontrol and you become hopelessly addicted.. Friends and Family suffer, and the person in pain ends up getting in debt, losing everyone around them and losing everything they have (plus the drugs) - Then DEPRESSION SETS IN.. Now you feel hopeless and just want to die.. This is not the way i should feel.. I have a horrible Bone Marrow disease, and now i have an even worse disease - DRUG ADDICTION!! I wish they would BAN THIS DRUG.. Ban it so that i can NEVER get ahold of it ever again!! Purdue should create a NON-ADDICTIVE pain medication that doesnt cause depression and doesnt ruin your life (plus one that doesnt cost $900 to get legally).. One day there will be a revolutionary drug like that, that will help millions of people - Untill then people will suffer.. People will lose their lives and dreams to addiction.. People will lose family, loved ones and friends to drug overdoses. If your not in pain PLEASE DONT EVER TRY THIS DRUG.. If you have any depression or lonelyness in your life and you do this drug, it will immediatly disappear. You'll use it on Fridays, then you'll use it on Tuesdays. Before you know it you'll be addicted and you wont even know it.. You'll lose friends and family.. You'll lose any financial future you may have had, and eventually you will lose your life.. Take it from me.. I used to be the life of the party - Now im skinny, pale, depressed.. Its not any way to live.. I see the dotor again tomorrow morning (Monday) and im gonna be 100% honest with him.. I promised my dad that im gonna detox again and I PRAY TO GOD THAT THIS TIME IT STICKS.. Im obviously ready, and i know that when i get clean i will thrive.. Life will be great! Even if im broke and things still suck - at least i'll be happy AND OFF OF DRUGS!! If theres any truth in "The Power Of Prayer" PLEASE PRAY FOR ME!! I swear to GOD that im going to give Detox my ALL.. I'll be starting on Friday (Nov 13 - Friday the 13th lol.) So maybe if somebody else in this universe shows me love through prayer it will help my strength.. Sorry for the long rambling post.. This is like therapy for me. Oxycontin is a horrible drug - But it does work.. Thats the double edged sword! It takes the pain away but it causes the users to do desperate things (and causes DEATH) AND THEREFORE the drug should be TIGHTLY REGULATED - Strictly to people in horrible pain.. Nobody else should have to lose a Son, Daughter, Mother, Father, Grandmother, Grandfather, Bestfriend Or even WORST ENEMY to this drug!! This isnt just about me.. On December 5th 2005 my BESTFRIEND - Joe Deaton - Died from an accidental overdose on Oxycontin.. To this day i've never met anyone else like him. He was a GREAT friend and he was an inspiration to so many people.. Thats complete cliche BUT he truly was!! At 21 he was a manager at a booming "DOTCOM" business and he was driving a BRAND NEW Camaro that he paid cash for.. He would help out friends who were financially strapped, He would give advice to people and it would almost instantly pull them out of whatever rut they were in.. He was an incredible person. Our mutual friend Jeremy grew up without a father and he would get drunk, then he would get suicidal.. One night he started rambling about how nobody loved him and that he was going to kill himself.. Joe slapped him dead in the face and said "Fuhk your dad!! Stop thinking about yourself! Your mother LOVES YOU and if you hurt or killed yourself, HOW WOULD THAT AFFECT HER? You would RUIN HER LIFE!!" - Jeremy instantly snapped out of it, and he never again talked suicidal.. It truly saved his life.. Joe was BEST FRIENDS with his Dad, They shared a house and Joe paid all of the bills.. On December 6th Joes Dad called me crying. He said that Joe took a pill and he "Passed Away". I'll NEVER forget that phone call. He asked to me to contact all our friends to let them know when the funeral would be.. Joe asked Jeremy how he would feel if his mom had to deal with his death, and now Joes own father was dealing with his.. Joe LOVED his Dad and i know that if he knew the gravity of what that one pill would do he would have never taken it.. I was so mad at him for so long.. He was my best friend for over 15 years and he was also the most successful person i've ever met.. Very few people have a drive for life like he did. I think about him every day, he was a great person and he would give you the shirt off his back (and then make you laugh till you cried.) I'll never know exactly what happened but i assume that After a night of hard partying he went home, popped a pill and went to sleep.. I assume it was on a Friday night (the last time he was seen) and his dad didnt find him untill late Sunday night (he didnt know he was home). I think about what his dad, Rick must have gone through.. I dont even want to think about it.. Its horrible.. His dad ended up getting cancer less than a year later, and he was (ironically) given Oxycontin.. Its a VISCIOUS CYCLE.. R.I.P. Joe Deaton. I dont want to be next..  
Karen Ermatinger  
April Hagerman In Memory of My Mom I am signing this petitionIn Memory of My Mother Jennifer Lisa Sendmeyer. In hopes that Oxycontin gets banned before someone else loses a loved one. My Mom just turned 40 she was given Oxycontin for severe back pain instead of finding the cause of her pain they sent her home with this killer drug, she died the next day Febuary 5th 2006. My Mom was such a wounderful person she was loved by all who knew her. Please if You are a person who is addicted to Oxycontin and your reading this DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG you will leave behind many people who love You. My family will never be the same My Mom will never get to see her first grand baby or walk her children down the aisle. Theres so much My Mom has missed and its not fair that drug took her from Me, My Two sisters And little Brother and Her Mother. I will never be the same it's going on 6 years this Febuary and I feel like it happened yesterday, My Mom was my bestfriend I told her everything when she died I lost a piece of Myself that I can never replace, until the day I die I will fight for this drug to be banned if thats what it takes, I'm sorry to everyone who has lost a loved one I understand your pain. PLEASE BAN OXYCONTIN its becoming and epedemic how many more lives have to be lost before somethings done! 
Sheri l Gruber  
Anonymous  
Egvoidl I live in eastern KY, one of the most blasted and destroyed regions, in terms of societal damage. OC's have eliminated entire families, alienated people from their closest friends, drastically increased the amount of petty crimes, and otherwise given more serious criminal activities the go ahead because local police forces and DEA are so swamped trying to round up suppliers and users that department resources are spread thin. I, myself, have lost several friends to them, and ended my relationship with my only brother over his addiction and theft to supply it. Oxy Contin NEEDS to be banned, strictly controlling it's distribution will not work. A nation of junkies, in these hard times, stands little chance of survival if an economic collapse were to actually happen in the near future. On a more personal level, OC's enslave the user, essentially forcing them to betray, thieve, deceive and ruin themselves in pursuit of the basic desire to not feel horrible the moment they get out of bed. Addicts go far beyond enjoying their fix; they must have it-to put it in the terms of some Oxy users I know-"to feel normal" The very fact that this drug has been allowed to spread so far for so long is despicable, and speaks to the love of money more than the love of humanity.  
Tyler Trent I personally know three KU students that were killed from using Oxycontin. This stuff has got to go.  
Jacqueline Tamburri My son died Oct.1, 2009 at 32 years old from over dose of OxyContin. I found him in his apartment after two days and I would never want any other parent to go through what I am going through. 
Harmoney Zsurka This drug is illegally distributed by Doctors who are not monitored. This drug causes serious addiction and ruins lives and kills people. I have watched people I love, that are GOOD people, be destroyed. Some of these people are in need of a pain medication but this is just a gateway to heroine.  
Lefort Mesdames, Messieurs, Je suis française, et cela faisait quelque temps que j'essayais de retrouver mon ami Jason Dibassie. Et qu'est ce que je découvre sur le Web, que mon cher et tendre ami est décédé de cette drogue. Je souhaiterais soutenir toute sa famille (du moins ce qu'il en reste) ainsi que toutes les personnes qui l'ont cotoyées. Nous sommes en 2009 il est décédé en 2002, je viens juste d'apprendre son décès et j'en suis afreusement triste, j'ai mal et surtout je ne comprend pas. C'est pour cela que je viens vers vous pour signer cette pétition. Cordialement Virginie Lefort PS : si quelqu'un connaissait Jason Dibassie, merci de bien vouloir me contacter.  
Rev. David A. Hovik By all means, this drug needs to be banned.  
Kristina If our country really wanted the best for all its people, it would start with protecting them first.  
Anonymous  
Michael Petz  
Tyesha Gray I haven't lost anyone to this drug that is taking the lives of many and must cease with taking anymore. 
Dani Too many children lost, too many adults ruined, too many families left in despair. I've known families who have been impacted and my heart aches for them. 
Karen Kreller I have in recent months been made aware of the extreme dangers of this drug. I have met people who have lost their children to this drug. Please ban this drug.  
marianne hutchins  
Bob My 18 year old son recently informed us he was adicted to Oxy and our family will now never be the same. We must now deal with not just the expense, but the daily efforts in his LIFETIME of recovery. I'm thankful he's alive as many aren't as fortunate. This is a powerful and dangerous drug that is VERY prevalent in the local high schools and needs to be removed immediately to help save our future. 
Monroe Benaim This is a terribly addicting drug and both as a physician and a School Board Member of Palm Beach County, Oxycontin must be taken off the market. 
Anonymous I am signing this petition for a multitude of reasons. I have a family member addicted to Oxycontin as well as a good friend and a neighbour. I am almost positive I'm not fully aware of the magnitude of the dangers of this drug. I am one person who knows three people addicted to one drug. I first became aware of it from my friend that lives up-north . Then I watched my next door neighbour's marriage crumble apart finally ending in divorce due to his personality changes directly due to the Oxycontin usage. I personally had an extremely close call with a pain medication. Morphine. My doctor prescribed this drug to me without any warnings of it's potency. I took one pill and don't remember anything for 13 days. I woke up in the Critical Care Unit of a local hospital in Pinellas County. I was on a ventilator for 13 days in the CCU for another 5 days and sent home. This all happened while my Mom and Dad were called by the hospital staff and told to get to the hospital ASAP as I only had a matter of hours to live. My Mom and Dad were put through the rigours of having to make funeral arrangements for their youngest child, ME. I am so amazed and HAPPY that I pulled through and am here to talk about the dangers of prescription narcotics. If anyone reads this do not take the first pill !!!!!!!! You WILL BE ADDICTED, IT'S THE NATURE OF THE BEAST. THE BEAST IS NARCOTICS MOST ESPECIALLY Oxycontin. PLEASE, PLEASE, Don't take it! I now own a pre-paid funeral arrangement because of narcotics and I was not even abusing them. BEWARE, they are so. so, DANGEROUS. I wish there are words to tell you how dangerous they are. BE SMART, DON'T START  
Shelly Fuller  
Matt Williams  
Nicole Leanne  
Robin Stubbs My husband is an Iraq war veteran, upon returning from Iraq he was prescribed oxycontin and morphine for back pain, he became hopelessly addicted to these substances that led him to use illicit drugs. As a result he has overdosed several times and attempted suicide. Thankfully now he is clean and in outpatient treatment program, this has come after MANY stays in inpatient rehab that failed. His doctors were military doctors that cared very little about the fact that he was abusing these medications and would over prescribed them to the point of giving my husband 500 pills weekly despite my pleas not to! Doctors are far to careless with these horrid drugs that they are all to quick to pass out like candy! This is a substance that is far more dangerous than even Heroin because it can still be legally obtained, I beg whoever may read this to please make this something that will not damage another single life! 
Brent Bruno i wish oxy was never invented. it has fckd my life up. it does more harm then good. 
Ashtin Delatorre NEEDS TO BE GONE! 
billy please fda ban all opiates ,it's killing people everyday,after all the bad news on opiates i'm wondering if the makers even care.i bet in the end sh.t will hit the fan, this can't be allowed to continue,i will pray that GOD will bring down the makers and drs who prescibe it,,amen 
Kelly Steen I pray everday that these terrible drugs get banned. We all need to come together and get these deadly things out of pharmacies!! 
Angie crowe I was on this drug for a long time it nearly took my life.I just lost my cousin to this drug because of a overdose.he was my best friend.this drug should be took of the market 
Tanya My sis is addicted to OC and her boyfriend OD on them I’m scared she too will end like him if she continues to take them.  
Michael Walby Licit drugs and their abuse needs to be exposed as much as illicit drugs. We feel "safe" because the "FDA approves" a drug but many like this are unsafe and need to be banned. 
NICOLE JULIANO on March 28th 2006, my heart was destroyed when my boyfriend of 5 years Dan passed away in his sleep. He was only 18 years old. He was addicted to oxycontin. He was phsically and mentally addicted to this pill. he would pay up to $100 for one pill if he had to. He did many things that was not him because of the pill, stealing from love ones and friends, cash in anything for $ just so he would have the pill. i have lost many friends to this drug. Most of them now are addicted to heroin because of the price of the pill. it should be banned. it destroys lives and ruins the person who you are. I will do anything to contribute to this cause. THIS PILL RUINES LIVES 
Anonymous Last week a young women overdosed on oxy in the bathroom of a Kroger Store, how they found her, her baby girl was wondering around the store. Oh God I pray for her family. 
Heather Smith  
amanda jordan  
Mike Roby  
Kim Renner Roby This is one of the worst drugs out there. It is heroin but disguised as socially acceptable becuase it is a perscription drug. It has ruined so many lives. There are so many other alternative pain releivers that there is no reason for this to be on the market.  
Trish By the time my daughter, my baby, was 23 she had buried 3 friends due to drug related deaths (oxys & Benzos)...the sadness is overwhelming. My neighbors daughter had her brains blown out, drug deal gone bad and 2 children were left without a mother...this is madness! When is this going to be recognized as the epidemic that it is? This is not a matter of demographics anymore...my daughter and her friends grew up in a quiet middle class neighborhood, award winning school and AWANA (Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed and comes from the Bible verse 2 Timothy 2:15)every week, unfortunately the kids were more street savvy than the parents. I thank God everyday that I still have my daughter. 
Jay Stewart My mother is not the same person because of this medication. Doctors say it's what she needs for her back pain. It will kill her. She falls asleep while driving, eating, smoking, talking. We have found her unconscious in the snow wearing only a night shirt. She has difficulty remembering anything. It has taken over. And how can people who really need this stuff afford it? I hope this kind of petitioning will actually make it somewhere, I really do. 
Anonymous  
lisa bergerud  
Jim Larsen  
Elaine Nutter  
Lindsay Koch  
MEGAN SALVATORE I have alot of friends who got addicted when prescribed by a doctor. then when they coudnt get it anymore they moved on to heroin. If it wasnt for this drug, witch is given out like advil i would still have some friends and family here with me instead of in my thoughts and prayers as they roam loking for their next fix. 
Suzanne Boyd I have seen the destruction this causes first hand - it has to stop. 
Elizabeth O'Donnell  
Sean Partain  
Angela Nebeker I have seen what this drug does to a person. It almost cost me my marriage. I got lucky, he was able to come off it. I know it wasn't easy for him, but I think sitting in prison had a lot to do with it. Not everybody gets a second chance, though and my heart goes out to them. They need to know that they are not alone! I thought I was for so long, and blamed myself. It is such a threat to anyone who comes into contact with it.  
M. Devalon It's well past time for a more rational policy regarding all aspects of drug use and abuse in this country. We cannot afford to keep sacrificing young lives on the altar of insane drug company profits. We can do nicely without OxyContin. 
Anonymous My family has been devastated by this horrible drug. I'm so sorry for the families that have lost a loved one and I'm afraid my family will be one of those families soon. The drug should be banned the "pill mills" in Florida, Texas and elsewhere should be shut down. Those doctors are nothing more than criminals and should be arrested. The suboxone doctors are no better. My niece went into suboxone treatment but was never told that it is as addictive as oxy. Because the cost of rehab is prohibitive to most people, Pardue Pharma should be responsible for paying for the rehab of the people who want to get off the garbage. 
Anonymous have seen the devastation first hand of this drug oxycontin - saw within 8 weeks an addiction develop - a decline in 8 weeks which resorted to stealing and now the cost to the individual, the family is horrible as well as the cost of treatment has resulted in spending over $60,000 for 8 to 12 weeks of treatment which is not guranteed and goes with a wing and a prayer. BAN THIS DRUG IT IS IN THE HIGHSCHOOLS AND EASY TO GET 
Anonymous Please do the right thing and take this off from the market. 
Melanie Bourgoin Oxy killed my son and left us very devestated and left his 3 year old little girl devastated (he had 2 on an empty stomach with .08 alcohol). Too easy to get! 
Anonymous  
greg rister please ban this drug. 
amanda jordan i wish they would stop the people from going to florida to get drugs and sell them in kentucky. 
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
Anna Prats I know too many people who have destroyed their lives and the lives of those who love them because they abused this narcotic. It also led to the use of intravenous needles and heroin. Addiction is all you receive from this drug in the long run. 
Debbie wray  
Sara Crawford  
barbara ann ross every where i look i see this going on and it keeps getting worse and worse. I have lost all my friends to this drug and some of my loved ones. I just pray that something will be done about it soon. If not i believe it will be the demise of this country.  
Anonymous My son has a problem with oxy. There needs to be something for pain besides an opiate. 
Christine Lanieri What a great cause... 
Anonymous  
Thomas A. Steiner  
Sandy Renner I agree with the petition to ban Oxycontin which can destroy so many lives. 
Anonymous  
Stephanie Hensley  
Vanessa Toney  
Denise McIntyre To whom it may concern, I have just recently found out my 19 year old daughter is addicted to oxycontin. If this medication was prescibed only to people who needed it, there would not be so much of it on the street. This drug needs to be off the market and out of the hands of our children.Immediatly. To many lives are being lost. 
Roberto Naya  
Lauren Rodger i watched oxycontin destroy my family bit by bit. i can only imagine what its done to other familys. get rid of it.  
Tyler Rodger This drug has ruined my older sister's life and has effected myself, my family and close friends. 
William Rodger I have a daughter who is currently addicted to this terrible drug and our community is being over run by it. 
Cambric Mathews  
Kris Rodger  
Christine I have came to the conclusion that drugs are the devil. I pray everyday for my loved ones who are addicted. I hope this petition helps the FDA realize the amount of people affected by this drug and some action is taken. God Bless 
Marci Ashley  
David Fialko  
Anonymous Ban it! With today's medical advancements, we can find alternatives. I have a son who I am deaply concerned about due to his experiments with recreation drugs and with this monster lurking, it poses a great threat.  
Stephanie C  
Noreen E. Burdick How sad it is right now to be making this post and being aware of the severity of this problem. Before August 8th of this year, I was totally ignorant of how bad the situation is and now carry survivor's guilt because I didn't educate myself sooner. I am sorry Matt, I love you. 
Jackie I found i cousin's boyfriend deed on 22nd Nov 2008. He died from Oxycontin overdose 
Emilee Naylor  
Dee it is truly an epidemic old and young. It is a crisis in florida. peoples lives are being ruined. I've seen too many friends loose everything. something needs to be done. 
Darlene Marcucci it is truly an epidemic old and young. It is a crisis in florida. peoples lives are being ruined. I've seen too many friends loose everything. something needs to be done. 
Ashleigh Franklin  
Joe I heard about the dangers of this drug in my Psych class from a guest speaker who lost a son to the drug. It was heart wrenching and disturbing. Hopefully this virus can be stopped 
cecil stepney  
Anonymous  
Anonymous lets all hope this problem gets resolved 
Anonymous I was once addicted to this stupid medication and was clean for almost a year and now im back to square one i want it gone!!! 
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
Jacqueline Moore My son is addicted to oxycontin. This is a very dangerous drug that must be taken off the street so that the lives of other sons won't be so negatively effected.  
Rebecca Dowdell  
MIchael Thomas You hear stories all the time about people OD on this drug. This needs to be stopped.  
alice perkey  
virginia lewis my heart goes out to the victims of this drug and to the families that have lost who they love due to it. 
diane I am a mother of a 20 year old who is an addict to oxycontin. She has been an IV drug user to this drug for 10 months now. I never know day to day what my world holds. For all you parents out there we must pray this drug is removed off the market.  
AC Dahmen  
shannon cubbedge  
michelle fanjoy-schritter I as well as many have lost my sister because of this. Hope this helps and best wishes to all the other family who has suffered losses as well 
SHELBY ASHWORTH I WOULD REALLY LIKE FOR THIS DRUG OXYCONTIN TO BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET. I THINK THIS WILL SAVE LIVES AND HELP LOWER THE DRUG RATE IN TEENS AND ADDICTION. I LOST A GREAT FRIEND TO THIS DRUG. HOPEFULLY, IF THIS DRUG IS BANNED, I WILL NEVER HAVE TO EXPIERIANCE THAT AGAIN, NOR THE FAMILIES AROUND THE U.S. 
Drew Lemco Though I haven't been to any funerals YET I have already lost almost every friend I have every had. We need to put a real end to these loveless money grubbing bastards. 
Kirk Hall My 19 year old son died from Oxycotin overdose on November 4, 2007.  
Crystal Sutphin This should have been done a long time ago, I have seen what it can do to a family when they lose someone they love becasue of this drug.  
Debbie Wray Ive lost a couple people who were very close to me from this. They become strangers and the harder you fight for them , the easier it is to lose any hope that you might have had for any sort of recovery. This drug is easily accessible for those who are in pain and are looking for help but soon they will find themselves in a constant struggle to kick this addiction. They disorient from themselves from anyone who tries to help and push away the people that care the most.  
Linda Barker  
Asheleigh Lane I have seen my husband become an absolute monster while being addicted to Oxycontin. Please ban this horrible drug and save countless families from the pain we have all experienced from this drug. 
Candis Adkins  
jon hatten  
brian miller  
Anonymous Please get rid of this drug. It's getting alot of people addicted. It' very easy to get addicted. Iv'e been their. I took loratab and things of that nature. Ban all pain meds. Most people don"t need them. If they do keep them in the hospital, until there well, then wean them off of pain meds. 
Jennifer Reeves  
Rebecca I have lost four family members behind this drug. 
levi this can be stopped 
Amy Hudson  
Jim and Linda Kauffman There should be more precautions taken by doctors and pharmaceutical companies alike when it comes to such an addictive drug. Vicoden should be added to this list along with all other opiates. It all leads to the same place, the one drug that you can't rebound from which is heroin. I've seen it happen with so many.......It's so unfair to those that can't say "NO"......... 
Keith Watkins Some drugs are not worth the price to mankind. 
Christin Wray I've known quite a few people who have been addicted to this drug and it only brings harm. It's highly addictive and ruins the lives of those people that are addicted and the lives of the people who care about them. 
Carol Christie  
Lynn Hope  
jennifer burket  
edward sutphin  
Mary Jo Morris  
Pat Corey We lost our nephew to this horrible drug. A kid that had everything going for him had his dreams robbed and left his family devastated. This drug is deadly destroying everything in its path. Let’s make banning this drug happen!  
ghetonda mosley-shertzer i was given OXYCONTIN at grant medical hospital after i had a hip replacement,,,,i thought i was going to die,,,within 10 min. i was red all over the top of my head felt like it would explode & i itched like crazy,,,,the nurse was called & i got an injection,,,of what i don't know,,,,the nurse & doctor said i had an alergic reaction & always put down as being allergic to this drug 
Anonymous  
Madalyn Kauffman Yes, this drug is dangerous, get it off the market,before we don't have any good young people left,!!!!!!!!!!! 
Gary Patterson  
Tonya Collins This is a horrible drug. It almost cost the life of my husband and our marriage, his job, everything that was important to him. We have been married for 3 years and up until June when he called me to come where he was living because we have lived apart more than we have together since the beginning of our marriage and ask for help. He looked horrible lost so much weight and was very pale. He ask for help and admitted he had a problem and felt like if I left him their he would die. The next day I went and picked him up,took him out of town where he could not get to his dealers and family that handed them out. Got him to talk to a counselor and came home and entered rehap. He moved back in at the end of July and we are still together. Longest amount of time since we have been married..I could not give up on him because I knew the man I dated for almost 4 years prior to our wedding and prior to the addition. I prayed for God to help us and it is a daily task he goes to 3 meetings a week more depending on work...We are overcoming the problems and he his getting his life back.  
shawn corey Lost a beloved cousin to this drug and its disease. My heart goes out to families fighting this disease in their family. Nothing good comes from this lethal weapon.  
larry claunch  
melba stewart  
Judie Smith Help America, help each other! 
nicole tartaglia i have witnessed the devastating and life altering outcome that stems from the use of this drug. even when administered by a doctor for the alleviation of pain the body becomes dependant and with out professional weaning from the drug or even with the potential for addiction is more so than not.. not to mention the many other negative effects it has on our society with increased crime surrounding this drug which means increased prevention intervention and criminal services so after thinking about my experiences surrounding this drug and how it tears apart families friends and society i have never been so sure of banning something such as the removal of drug...  
Ann Burket My son Thomas became addicted to OxyContin. September he died from this addiction at the age of 25. This drug NEEDS TO COME OFF THE MARKET before any more "kids" die for no reason!! 
Sara-Ann Burket I lost my big brother to a drug induced suicide last year...he was 25 years old. his problem was with oxycontin for many many years, and it was one he never had problems getting. The majority of people prescribed them in our area lied to get them, or didnt have any problem selling them off to the youth of our community.  
nancy pagliarini  
Diane taylor  
Howard S Burket I lost my son because of this stuff and a few of his friends also. I did not know what it was back in 2000 when they started messing with it, and they didn't either. He took his own life in 2008 because he hated what he became and could not shake this demon. If Oxycontin was not so available I would still have my son today, and for everyone that passes from these addictions many lives are changed in the process the ones they leave behind. 
Patricia Clinton  
Donna Cross  
tom meyer  
Anonymous Our family has suffered greatly from the aftermath of Oxycontin addiction....this is a case where risk far out weighs the benefit. 
David L. Miracle  
Bill K  
tom vigneault Much worst than any street drug out there. 
wanda swick  
Ashley taylor  
Richard Hughes  
Debera Murtaugh  
Randall Sargent  
Keplin Johansen  
Terry and Tonna Vanderpool  
Anonymous My fiance's ex-wife has been addicted to Oxycontin for more than eight years. She started taking it after a shoulder injury, then got clean, but resumed taking the drug after a serious car accident that shattered her ankle. I believe that she is a kind, beautiful person whose life has been destroyed by this drug and her refusal to seek help, despite numerous attempts from friends and family. In the past four years, she lost her marriage, her home, and has been incarcerated numerous times for theft and trafficking. Saddest of all, she has lost her parental rights with her sweet four-year-old son whom she has not seen in over six months, and has not had custody of since he turned two. (She was arrested for shop-lifting on the way to his second birthday party.) After years of doctor shopping, jail time, and abusive boyfriends, she is now homeless, jobless, and penniless and it breaks my heart to think that had it not been for this evil drug she could be living a very different life. We are still praying that someday she will get help so that her son can know his mommy.  
Apres McLaughlin The company should be shut down as they are ruining so many families lives and I blame the doctors for frequently prescribing it. 
Anonymous  
David Michael Bagi  
scott keusey  
Felicia B.Williams  
Kristina  
Julie Herold When will something be done to stop the drug pushers (Doctors)? 
Vicki Laney I wish to God that this stuff would get banned. People doesn't need meds such as this stuff.  
Denver Laney Jr. Oxycontin is destroying my community including people that I love. The pipeline from Florida must be stopped. 
Susan Artabasy My brother has been addicted to this drug for years due to a back problem. It has ruined his life. He has multiple bankruptcies, his house is in foreclosure and the last time I saw him he had been living without a refrigerator for months because he didn't have enough money to fix the old one or buy a new one. At the time he was 6"2 and weighed 128 pounds. Every time I have tried to take him to rehab I have been asked for thousands (the magic number seems to be $18K) up front and I don't have that kind of money. When I tried to go to the VA I was told there was an 8 month waiting list, but if he was suicidal they would admit him. I described an incident where he ran into a car in front of him doing 80 mph( on purpose) and said "that seems suicidal to me." I was told "that didn't happen today, so he is not suicidal now." They also sneered, and asked where was he getting the drug and I said - "Your VA Dr. prescribed him 300 pills last month!" They offered no help. There was also the time he literally went into a police station, higher than a kite, and instead of locking him up they sent him home and called me. I tried to call them back three times for help and they never returned my call. In that instance, my brother filed a false claim accusing an old girl friend of breaking into his house and vandalizing it. He was so high, he did it himself and did not realize it. Once again, the same police substation knew this was a false claim, but sent him home instead of incarcerating him. I am 97% sure he was driving a car at this time. I could write a book about these stories, but can't get any help. Please ban this drug, it not only hurts the people addicted, but their family members and loved ones as well. Don't create and prescribe a drug that is highly addictive and then label the victim a drug user or seeker - how about the Dr.s that prescribe it are drug pushers!! 
Anonymous  
Corinne Iavarone This is a very sad drug and it must be taken off the market. It ruins too many lives!  
Paula Smith My son died from an accidental overdose of oxycontin on May 12th 2004 at the age of 23 years old.  
Anonymous I had no idea my husband was addicted for 8 months and now we are picking up the pieces. This is a disgusting, sad drug that takes people who normally are good, contributing citizens and turns them into monsters. This must be banned! 
Alina Rodriguez I just received a bracelet "BANOXYCONTIN.COM" I think it's sad how many lives have been ruined or lost. I blame the physcians that prescribe this drug without any regard of the horrible outcome that this drug is having. I choose to wear the bracelet to bring awareness to my college friends in hopes that they too will bring awareness to their friends,brothers,sisters,and so on. 
Jana vento  
Henry Swain This drug is no good. It has ruined to many of my family members and friends lives. There should also be some action taken towards these so called pain management locations. These so called doctors are writing scripts faster then ever to get their kickback. Something needs to be done now before the whole country is addicted. 
Jessica Bleser  
Brittany Green My brother has stolen from his own family to get this drug. He now sits in jail for the choices he has made. 
Heidi Torres My mother died on July 3rd, 2009 from the combined effects of opiates that were prescribed to her following rotator cuff surgery. I gave her the medication prescribed to her as directed by her doctor but it was too much for her system. She was about to graduate from college with a degree in chemical dependency counseling and was a loving single mother of 3, including a 13 year old daughter who depended on her daily. She only took what was prescribed and these horrible "medicines" took her life as a result. Please ban all opiates so no other children have to lose their mother and best-friend. My siblings and myself have been forced to endure the rest of our lives without our mother to watch us grow....  
Anonymous  
Jen Woods  
Jodi Bailey God Bless the families of all who are addicted as well as those who are addicted! 
Walter Bailey My son, 23 has been addicted to Oxy for at least 5 years now. After 3 attempts at rehab., none which worked longer than a month, and years of stealing, lieing, etc. he now sits in Jail awaiting sentencing and possibly facing years in prison. If you or someone you love or know is on Oxy get them help right away, don't wait.....this drug is the DEVIL!!!!! 
Nick Restrepo This drug is not only dangerous It has no effective clinical benefit when compared to other safer agents. It is time to stop the madness and ban this lethal agent. 
steven gailey  
Anonymous  
David Leon Hines My nephew Zachary Santa died from an over dose after taking Oxycontin from a high school football injury. At 23 years old he took his last breath.  
Theresa Williams  
Meilus Muscular Therapy  
Al Meilus  
Kerry Sousse  
Anonymous My husband, Glenn, took OxyContin only as a breakthrough pain medication while he was wearing a "patch" that delivered other pain medication during his battle with cancer. He needed only one or two pills during the entire time he fought non-small cell carcinoma. Yes, he died from a very agressive cancer. The need for this drug was minimal, and break-through pain relief probably could have been achieved through other medications. If he were alive, I know that he would tell the pharmaceutical industry to stop manufacturing OxyContin. This drug is far too dangerous, and too available.  
Michelle Strauss  
Curtis Paxton  
SHARON SPARKS I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SMART FUNNY AWESOME 21 YEAR OLD SON ADDICTED TO THIS DEADLY DRUG. HE TOLD ME ABOUT IT IN JULY OF 2008. SINCE THEN I FOUND A PROGRAM THAT HELPS PAY FOR HIS TREATMENT IN THE SABOXONE CLINIC IN OUR AREA. WITHOUT THE HELP FROM THIS PROGRAM WE COULD NOT AFFORD HIS TREATMENT. MY SON IS BACK IN COLLEGE AND DOING WELL. I PRAY EVERYDAY THAT WE CAN GET MORE FUNDING AND MORE PROGRAMS THAT WILL PAY FOR THE TREATMENT OF THIS ADDICTION. AS A PARENT I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO DESPERATELY WANT TO HELP YOUR CHILD AND NOT HAVE THE MONEY. I HAVE NEVER FELT MORE HELPLESS IN MY LIFE AND SCARED TO DEATH I MAY LOSE MY SON BEFORE I COULD GET HIM HELP. GOD BLESS ALL WHO HAVE BEEN EFFECTED BY THIS DEMON. TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 
Anonymous  
Carol Ladd  
Adam Cliff  
Jani Goldberg  
Alina Escoto  
Brian Moon  
Anonymous  
Dean Lesicko  
Lauren Dolby  
Sheldon Offenbach  
Alan Kuehl  
Lisa Benson This a morphine are dispensed like candy by pain management doctors in Arizona.  
Robert D. Stevenson, DDS  
Gene A Pietragallo II  
James Ligoretti  
Lidia A. King  
Anonymous My granddaughter is an Army veteran. She was injured during basic, but spent the next three years in the Army because they would not let her out. (Stress fractures in the hips). After being honorably discharged in 2004, she sought treatment at the VA centers here in So Cal. They put her on Oxycontin, which spaced her out. When the finally took her off, she had nothing to kill the pain. She goes to work every day in slight pain. Thank God it's not as bad as when she was active. Get rid of that crap. 
Pam Field  
Carly Glazier One of my very best friend's lost her husband to this terrible drug and her son also has fought an addiction. Please make this drug nonexistent so no further deaths can occur as a result of it.  
Tracey Lokey Beck I am happy to help Mary!! 
Laura Schrock  
Casie Knipp  
Matthew Bradley this drug has turned me and friends into people we never thought we would ever be. Take the oppurtunity away from us. i just left a christian rehab for this drug and almost all people there were addicted to that or had moved on to Heroin. this has killed me and many others. Save us. 
Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack I am glad to join in this fight.  
janelle drews Killed my brother and tottally changed my boyfriend 
Paul Barrett OxyContin, has caused infinitely more pain than it has ever relieved. 
ML Hilton I have seen the effects of this drug 1st hand destry lives time and time again, I am sure that this drug was intended for a good use, but it has been proven it it destroys, the doctors are freely giving this to patients that could use diffent type pain medications. If there were so many people that sick that needed it ..Then the jails would not be full of people selling it..Wake up America, our taxpaying dollars is killing our own childern, how low income families con-the system, get the pills (OC's and sell them to anyone, it is as easy to purchase a (OC) as it a joint..Now if the FDA cann't see we are killing our childern then we need to above their heads send this to the President..he seems as if he would care...send my name there are many in my family that feels the same way...SEE I did not care to list my name..I servred my country with honor, now its time we fight another war the war on OXYCONTIN....let the America People know the real truth about this drug, let's not keep thme in the dark...The Parents, leaders, and families of this great nation can bind togrether and we can stop this...how many names do we need how many more must die..  
Sherry B. Hilton I want to thnak all the ones involved in getting this petition started, I fully understand this drug to its fullest potiental. Having a good kid that tried this drug and becoming an addict has opened my eyes. I am not a parent to stand by the side and turn my head as if my son is not an addict. He was taught not to try drugs, guess what he did, and it was the drug of all drugs, the demon drug. IT has to be taken off the market, why is everyone who has a back pain, walking into a docotors office getting these drugs...this drug should only be for those bed-ridden in a hosptial..not some-one abe to con a doctor and then sell them to up their income at the expense of others lives, is there anthing Parents of America can do...can we start a war drugs...my email is listed, let me know how to help..Lets Ban the sell of this drug..Today is not soon enough...Let Washington know, get the media involved, take all that sign this petition and let us express our feelings...UNITED WE STAND for our childern, our country and lets get our kids back.. 
Andrew Verbeke Oxycotion is a harmful drug and can lead to death. It needs to be illegal. 
Charles Nelson  
Laurie Basham This needs to end- until it happens to your child you have no idea how widespread this is-  
Sarah S.  
Jennifer T MY BOYFRIEND IS ADDICTED TO ROXIS N IM SCARED HES GUNNA DIE 
laura lewis  
Robin Fuller  
Tatsuya Sakamoto  
Tired Sister.... As time as gone by I watch my younger brother slowly kill himself.... He assures our mother, older bother, myself and the rest of our family that he doesn't have a problem we are his problem!!! We cry for him at night, during the day, or when we have no clue where he might be hanging at. My bother was and still some where inside there is an amazing man. But all I see is a skeleton walking and talking. I have kept my children from seeing the way he looks but I DO tell them aout the drugs, doctors that give it and the companies that are helping my brother get high!! Some day I will be holding my mothers hand and wonder what to say for she will be buring her baby!!! The people and companies really dont care because they are enjoy the money and everything else that comes with it!! Maybe they should invite him to their christmas dinner, so that my mother doesn't cry wondering if he is alive or dead somewhere. As for the families that have lost their loved ones my heart goes out to you and your families I DO understand what you have seen and gone through but hopefully someday my sweet, laughing brother returns before it to late. Sincerly, Tired Sister 
Evan Taylor  
Sue Couture My son is a dealer and drug user. I have so many emotions that it makes me sick. Please ban all oxy products because there are other way to deal.  
Debbie Workman  
KAREN HAMMOND PLEASE BAN THIS TERRIBLE ADDICTIVE DRUG. IT IS KILLING TOO MANY PEOPLE. 
TAMMY BARNETT  
sheryl cawrse  
helena I took a look at the list of people that have lost a love one to this horrible drug OXYCONTIN and iwas horrified.I felt like i was walking through a CEMETERY!!!! On OCt.11,2009 a friend called frantically to pray bacause her son was on ICU w/an overdose of drugs.He was addicted to guess what no other than OXYCONTIN.This beautiful human being couldn't help himself,The Dr.said in his 25yrs he's never seen a case like this!!!He had to have a PACE MAKER PUT ON HIM, his heart was at the brink of not functioning when he got to the hospital,KIDNEYS AND LIVER WERE SHUTTING DOWN!!!HE received DIALISIS.HE's doing a bit better frail, pale and underweight only God made this MIRACLE HAPPENED!!!The Dr; had told the parents i'm not going to give you false hopes but i don't think he's going to make it.Through so many, many people praying, the LORD OPENED A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY to this young man.This drug is been prescribed like some type of "CANDY", The doctors have no ethics!!!.They're the responsible ones.This drug should be given only at the hospital under the extrict, supervision of a physician if not BAN THIS DEMON FROM THIS WORLD!!! 
Patricia Morris This drug is killing to many people and should only be given in the hospital for pain on a one time basis...Nobody should get a prescription for this drug ever!  
william short They have taken away the lifes of two young men that i personaly knew and how many more young people are going to lose there lives? 
Mellicent Quinn My thirty yr. old son died on Sept 15th of this year due to what I believe was an overdose of Oxycontin and Zanax, as well as something called Roxy and perhaps alcohol. I was given info about a crooked dr. that writes prescriptions for cash. My son got the scripts filled on Monday and was dead on Tuesday. God rest his wonderful soul. I have to blame him for stupidly taking the drugs but I'm working on trying to find out exactly what happened to him. Thank you for all of the hard work this website is composed of. God Bless. 
Angela Viglas Oxycotin has devasted my son's life and everyone who loves him. This drug can take a good person and turn them into someone you never knew. My son is in jail right now...a place I would never think he would be. This drug needs to be banned. 
Jan Faltynek  
Alena Faltynek My best friend lost her son to overdose on oxycontin. It's so sad non of the doctors is punish. How many more people have to die? 
KAREN CHALIKES  
Natricia Jordan I have a lot of family and loved ones whom have and are currently addicted to this horrible drug. Should have never been invented honestly.  
jennifer hutchins  
brian g hutchins  
Laurie Lindow This drug has ruined my life beyond belief. It has stripped my only child from me. Laurie Lindow 
Bruce Durward  
Michelle Hutchins My brother who is only 21 has been addicted for 5 years. He was given a prescription for back pain and he has never been the same. This drug needs to be illegal! 
Robin Davis  
Lisa Jackson  
Amberleigh Henderson  
Lisa Buratti  
Anonymous Please ban these highly addictive and destructive drugs (ie. opiates of any kind, synthetic and organic), and allow the innocent victims to heal. We have to draw the line at this moment because of the holocaust that has been allowed to perpetuate over the past several years. The destruction of entire families and business' must be brought to a screeching halt. God bless us all. Peace, happiness and prosperity to all of you. ;^D 
Anonymous terrible stuff. get rid of it. 
Elizabeth Orr-Jackson Get rid of this horrible drug...I had an employee rip me off for this drug...a good employee we cared about. 
steven g larson  
Palma Talarico My beautiful 32 year old daughter passed away on july 13th 2009 from an overdose of oxycodone. She had been to a rehab and met the attending physician there. He then treated her in his private office for gout and prescribed oxycodone for her pain. Why didn't he treat the disease instead of the pain. And why would a physician from a drug rehab prescribe oxycodone????? 
Natalie Rieth My boyfriend is addicted to this harmful drug. It's killing him as well as our relationship. It's a horrible feeling wondering if when you wake up is the man you love going to be dead. Wish this drug would just be banned forever! 
Andrew James McManus I've had several friends get addicted to this drug. In one case they switched to heroin when they never would have thought of touching it before oxy. It brings no good for human kind only pain and death. 
Anonymous  
Carol D.  
Alan Fenstermaker  
Anonymous I know of the problem, but do not know anyone who is taking it or addicted to it. 
Raquel Carrion  
Anonymous With personal knowledge of friends who have been consumed by the addictiveness of oxy, this drug must be banned! 
briana waller  
joe joe (wigg) I think oxycontin is the plague i think it should be banded completely. doctors just hand the shit out for insurance money its killing us all. Ive watched people live by the needle die by the needle its horrible. 
Andrea Childers I think Oxycontin should be baned. I have lost alot of friends to the abuse of this drug and its unreal what effect it has on people. 
Anonymous I hate that the FDA allows these killings to be able! This is shocking and most of all, wrong. Im sorry for the loss of your family members and I hope that this will help you in the future. God bless you all.  
Anonymous  
Elizabeth Mouhot There must be some other non narcotic type of drug to prescribe people who really need pain medicine. I easily stumbled across oxycontin and became very addicted for a year, I almost lost everything but by the Grace of God I was saved from myself. This drug is so powerful and people see it like they see heroin. Its not worth the loss of lives. 
Anonymous I'm losing my father to Oxy. His doctor should lose his license. 
Michelle Garcia I've been addicted to oxy for almost 4years and am now finally getting help for it. This shit takes your life, I am praying for everyone who has lost loved ones. This drug is powerfull and needs to be off the market!! 
Anonymous  
Chris Houck My son Kyle E Houck died from Oxy... How can we continue to allow this on the market? 
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
Gail Baer I just lost my 21 year old grandson to oxycontin on September 4th. 2009 Keiser Hospital kept giving them to him even after we told the hospital he was an addict. 
Patricia Hale My family is in turmoil because of this demon. It is pure evil in the hands of addictive people and there are too many of these types of people in this world. 
Courtney Mullins My boyfriend is in rehab as of today, because of this drug. It has destroyed his life. Thank God that is family can afford to send him to rehab, there is alot of familes not as lucky. His life could have been taken because of this drug. Two months ago, I buried another friend due to this drug. This makes at least the 8th person. Why is it still on the market. How many more people has to die and life's destroyed to make this illegal and to stop producing it?  
Carol Milton The FDA has to stop the distribution of Oxycontin before we lose all of our kids. I just lost my 21 year old nephew to a drug over dose on Oxycontin. I am a nurse, there are other medications out there that we can give someone for pain other that Oxycontin. Something needs to be done to these Dr. who keep prescribing this horrible drug over and over. 
Diane Hollier  
Jane Tymos  
Kathy Creedon My 21 year old son passed away from drug overdose on September 4, 2009. I had pleaded with Drs. not to give him addictive medication. Oxycontin needs to be stopped. 
Timothy Young This is a deadly drug that ruins the lives of users and family and friends of users. 
Leslie Yakubowski My husband has taken Oxycontin for over 10 years now. It has led to the decline of a once happy 21 year marriage - I am now in the throes of divorce. I became addicted to Oxycontin after a knee surgery when I developed a staff infection. It took 2 trips to rehab. I am now 21 months clean. Oxycontin steals lives.  
Anonymous  
Amanda Pigeon my boyfriend is suffering from and oxycontin additcion.. it is tearing me apart.. everyday he does whatever he can to get the money for his pills.. he is hurting me, and everyone around him. i dont know how to get him the right help. i am SO for the banning of Oxycontin! it would help me get my boyfriend back to being my boyfriend.. not this crazy addict that is taking him over. 
Anonymous Ban it! No more production = no more usage. How can something that is a known killer affect so many people. So much for government regulation! Much love to all. 
Anonymous I have lost many friends to oxycotton. This lethal drug should be banned. 
Chelsea Cubberley My mother OD on OxyContin but they brought her back about 3 times.. today she is living.. but me and my brother went through living hell because of this drug. 
Anonymous  
Anonymous  
Danielle Rubin  
Adam Rappoport This has killed my friends for no reason other then they had too much money and too much time on their hands.  
Erica Leznik  
Lisa Cohen RIP My dear friend Jon Turtle Elia 
Roger A. Shinholser I just found out that people are shooting these things... I never thought my friends would be shooting "heroin." I am thoroughly disgusted with this legal drug trade allowed by our government. Soon I will be reduced to taking matters into my own hands at the community level. If any more of my friends die due to my lack of action, I would feel negligent and as an accomplice to murder. How sick is that??? I do not even see these people anymore; however, word spreads, and I am aware. Maybe I do not see them because they sit at home all of the time abusing, minus the routine trip to con family so they can pursue a fix. Would individual action even help, or has the FDA allowed producers and dealers (Pain Management Clinics) to condemn these people to a life of relapse followed by an eventual "horrible event"? Good luck to all whom are tormented by this drug, the abusers and their family alike... We all need it.  
Kimberly Doucette I have just recently lost someone who was like a brother to me due to an overdose on OxyContin. This drug does horrible things to people and families around the world and it needs to be banned before it happens again. 
Anonymous  
Audra Chapman My cousin Robert James Chapman Overdosed on oxycontin on September 20th 2009. 
Jewell DeFrates  
Kate Bartels  
Veronica Porras I lost my nephew on March 14, 2009 he was only 17! These pills cost him his life! Please help the other teens out there & families! 
vinylram  
Sydney Tatum I have recently found out about the dangers of oxycotton. It is used in my grade of 10th graders and it hurts me to know it could of been avoided. 
Melissa Valice I hate this drug!!!! it has affected many people i know and has even caused death to people i know. i wish for it to be bannned!!! 
Bob Loose This is yet another case where a good idea went bad. 
Anonymous  
Linda Jordan  
mandi emery  
Cheryl A. Alderman  
Amanda McKeown  
Tracy Konopacki I sign this petition with the hope of saving my son, and all of your children, from his addiction to OxyContin.  
Kelsey I was addicted to this drug for 3 years. It completely ruined my life and i missed out on so many special moments because of it. This drug seems worth it when your using but it is NOT!!!  
Gerard Krouchick The pharma executives at Purdue Pharmaceutical should have been held accountable if they had knowledge of the addictive qualities of Oxycotin. Furthermore, how can the FDA keep this drug on the shelf. I have seen first hand what it can do to a family. Oxycotin is so potent it is almost impossible to get off by yourself. What's even more sad is the difficulty in securing help for this problem. No 3 to 7 day detox will work unless the usage level is minimal. You need a long term recovery program if the addiction is severe. However,the problem is most recovery programs such as these, require out of pocket funds which the normal everyday person cannot afford. I don't want to come across pessimistic but the alarm bells need to be sounded in our communities just how dangerous this drug can be. The pharmaceutical companies who reap the profits on selling this drug should be held responsible to some degree for funding more rehab programs because they are helping to destroy lives and families. Where the heck are our politicians in solving this growing problem ? 
joseph coomes Get this drug off the streets now.  
Anonymous I lost my neighbor last year to prescription drugs. I now have a friend in the hostital fighting for his life. This drug is terrible it ruins the lifes of the users their families and friends. This drug needs to be banned before more families and friendships are lost.  
Alexandra Schibanoff  
Andrea Paul  
Anonymous  
cooper jackson  
Anonymous  
Phil Andrews  
Don DeCristofaro  
dawn Please take this drug off the market before more people get hurt. 
Sean Adler My best friend back in high school is now brain dead due to an oxycontin overdose. This drug is an extremely addictive and malicious. 
sharon sparks MY BEAUTIFUL 21 YEAR OLD IS ADDICTED TO THIS DRUG. I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE THIS. HE HAS BEEN ON SUBOXONE FOR 9 MONTHS NOW. I BELIEVE WE COULD GET MORE OF OUR CHILDREN IN TREATMENT IF WE HAD THE FUNDS FOR IT. MY SON STILL STRUGGLES EVERYDAY AND WILL FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.  
Laraine Larson There are many teens addicted to oxy in Sequim, Wa Help! 
Anonymous this stuff ruins peoples lives. 
Bryan Cloonan I have 3 friends who abused OxyContin and died from it. I myself have taken OxyContin and got it by the massive amounts of oxycodone that are flooded into the black markets. These drugs are making pharmaceutical companies plenty of money, but let's start counting the dead bodies this country has seen since this "miracle" painkiller has become an alternative to Heroin and other opioid to be used as a painkilling medication. The only thing I've seen this drug kill is my friends. I want to personally thank a few people; Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Actavis US and most of all Purdue Pharmaceuticals.  
Lena *******  
ROSE KLAWINSKI THIS DRUG IS A VERY BIG PROBLEM. I LOST A FRIEND IN 2006 DUE TO OXYCONTIN, HE WAS ONLY 27 YRS. OLD. IT DEFINITLY NEEDS TO BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET....ALONG WITH A FEW OTHERS. 
Rachel Davis  
Sharla Pugliese  
Anonymous STOP THE OC SELLING... ARREST THE DR'S WHO PRESCRIBE THEM 
Natalie Castagno  
Scott L. Wexler  
L Johnson It is a death sentence. Too many children get their hands on it and die. I am saddened and disgusted by the stories I have read. Too many lives lost. Too many. 
r eisenberg people don't even realize what it is and how bad it is. It is that bad 
terry eggers  
Anonymous  
Scott Davis  
Fran Johnson  
Anonymous  
marianne tinberg Soon everyone will lose someone to oxycotin  
Patti Rochon Too many lives have been lost because of addiction to this drug. It needs to be stopped. 
Amber rosner Such a horrible addicting drug. 
Anonymous  
Michele Baskin Please stop the pain by banning this drug. It is way over prescribed and horribly addictive. Our local paper ran an article in last night's paper that in Oklahoma, more people were dying from painkiller overdoses than from automobile accidents. My 22-year old - much loved son- was one of the statistics. Please BAN OXY!  
Cindy Harney  
Jason Orlandos This epidemic needs to stop 
Jacque R  
Babbette Cornaby  
Anonymous This is to save all of those who are addicted to the drug like my boyfriend.Lets ban this drug forever! 
October Rast My best friend lost her son when he killed himself while on Oxycontin. He was a good kid with his whole life ahead of him and now an entire family will never be the same again. It is a tragedy beyond words.  
Anonymous For my brother and my family.  
Lee J. Twomey AS a recovered oxycontin addict it is great to see that a website such as this is available. I had battled with the addiction since 2001 and have recently overcome the addiction The pain that i had gone through prior to taking this "legal heroin" is nothing compaired to the pain and suffering I have physically and mentally gone through battling this addiction. I have seen this DRUG take the lives and well-being of so many close friends. As far as I am concerned the manufacturers and people that allow this drug to control so many peoples lives should be charged in a federal court of law and convicted of murder, treason, and drug trafficking. TO ALL THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS DRUG I WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK AND MY HEART GOES OUT TO ALL OF YOU!!! 
Russ Denker  
Anonymous The drug is used by Doctor's for reasons it isn't needed to be. This makes it easily accessible to people to abuse. Once addicted to it, the user then more often than not, will turn to herion. Shortly thereafter, the herion addict will loose their job, family and turn to stealing and whatever else it takes to be able to support their habit. Not only is the life of the addict in ruins but so are the lives of the addicts family and friends. 
Pamela Denker Please help us remove this drug from our society and take steps to save our children. 
Danny Olson  
Marissa Crespo The first time I thought I might actually have a drug problem was the first time I overdosed. My body was well adjusted to the daily 160 milligrams of oxycontin I would flood it with on a daily basis. The only difference is that this was my first real drug deal and I had 86 40mg pills at my bedside when I fell asleep that night around 10pm. I awoke projectile vomiting at 4 am; boyfriend jumping out of bed for the light switch nearby. I couldn't walk, nor talk. All I felt was my brain throbbing as if it were saying, “Get me the fuck out of here!" I regained consciousness somewhere along the way; I was cradling the toilet. My spine felt frozen, never had I felt so cold in my life; I was dripping sweat. In any normal situation I would have woken up in a hospital gown with some IVs in my arm, but this situation was not normal. The last thing we would have done was call an ambulance. The only thing that crossed my mind while nodding out on the bathroom floor was that I had two lines set up from earlier that night waiting for me back in the bedroom. My father was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic colon cancer in 2005 and died September 26, 2006. Instead of spending the last few weeks he had left with him; you could find me in your empty neighborhood parking lot sitting in a car with some tin foil and a straw. I always had wanted to be a nurse; it was my biggest ambition in life. I loved helping people. Instead I ended up dropping out of high school, shy five credits from graduating and lost all ambition for the things I was passionate about. I had already ordered my cap and gown. I eventually attempted one semester of college hoping I could get back on track but failed miserably. Soon thereafter I began selling 80's just to support my addiction. This is all I have to show for the past three years of my life: a totaled car, a termination notice from work, a piece of paper saying I unfortunately was not going to graduate, another statement notifying me of my bank accounts being shut down and possibly being subjected to viewing by the FBI, and a certificate certifying I went through a 30day rehab treatment facility.  
Patty McLachlan  
Lynn Hafer I wish the FDA would ban this completely. People will still buy Oxycontin on the streets. I just recently lost my 27 year old son-in-law to this drug and am currently trying to get my daughter into rehab before the same thing happens to her. 
L Johns This drug is destroying lives and killing innocent people. Someone has to stop the manufacturing of this drug. Theses pharmacist and drug companies are murdering people and making money.  
Diane Parker I believe that the drug oxycontin is responsible for the destruction of families, it is the reason for the highest crime rates this country has ever seen. It is successful in producing more and more homeless children, abused children and exploited children. There is no good reason for this drug to be out there.The list of damage this drug has caused society is endless. It needs to be banned NOW! 
Brandi Hill  
Emily Davis  
Suzanne Godefroy Get rid of this harmful drug!!! 
David Murray This is for my friend Kristie, who lost a friend to this drug, but also for the thousands who lost their lives to this drug. 
Robert Burns Purdue Pharma has reformulated Oyxcontin only as their patent expires, so they can continue to rake in $2.3 billion per year on a "new" drug/patent. This money has clearly gone into bribes to the FDA and advisory panel members who claim that the slightly more difficult to crush new pills should be approved as a new drug -- even without the drug-alcohol interaction studies that the FDA requires of EVERY other new drug, AND, without a full Risk Evaluation Management Strategy (REMS) that the FDA has said is required of all new drugs applications in this class. Why did the panel vote 14-4 in favor based on no actual data? This reformulation is such a poor attempt at making the drug harder to abuse that Purdue is only asking that the FDA approve it, and they admit that it should not be called "abuse-resistant" in the label. They promise not to market it as such, but just watch how they'll get the press to make these claims for them. They are all crooks, and they don't care that people are dying from their drug.  
Anonymous  
Lacey Crockett I have seen this drug affect people very dear to me. I almost lost one of them recently. I know the pain and heartache that this drug causes.  
Sheri Hansen  
Angela Moore really sad to watch someone you love battle an addiction to this drug. there are other great effective pain medications you can take if you have chronic pain. i do not want my son to ever have the chance to try OXY! 
Tina Gomez Please ban this drug. It almost took my brothers life but we were able to do an Intervention for him and we were able to get him into treatment. He has been clean for over 4 1/2 yrs. I feel for everyone that has lost someone or is struggling with someone with this horrible addiction God be with you. 
Timothy Savas  
Anonymous I am the mother of a 24 year old, soon to be a father, who is battling an addiction to OxyContin. A star Football player in high school, he was first given the pain medication to "help him get through" games after injuries. Regardless of how it started, it has been an ongoing addiction for many years now. He is scheduled for yet another eval tomorrow, 09/29/09 at 2:30pm. God willing, he wont change his mind about rehab. I miss the boy who is slowly disappearing in this horrible addiction. I die inside each day, a lttle more, as I see him, not as who he truly is, but as a product of this drug! It is avaialble on every street corner, in every city, killing and hurting so many young people and their families. Please God help us all before we too, the ones who still have chance to save our children, are mourning the loss of a child. I pray for the families who have lost their children, siblings, friends and family member... The wait from calling for help to actually getting an appointment, sometimes 24 to 48 hrs, is very upsetting. It only takes a few minutes for soemone willing to get help to change their mind..and only a few minutes, for someone to take just enough OxiContin to never have the chance of getting better.  
Kari Lamey  
Richard Wolfe  
Michelle Rainbolt Lost a very good friend 6 months back, and watching people all over dealing with the addiction. They take more and more as the days go on. Spend their kids $$ and steal just to get them.  
Kalli Ruiz  
Marie Kirkland  
Lori Porter My daughter easily gets oxy prescribed to her by a 'dirty' doctor. I've sent complaints to the medical association and the licensing division, but nothing seems to happen. I hate it that it is such an easy drug for our kids to get from doctors.  
Kim Dalrymple  
Becky Olson I lost my little brother to an overdose on June 4, 2009. I fully support this ban. 
yvonne my sister recently passed away. we believe oxocontin was the cause of this. a doctor prescibed this as vell a valium to her.. she had taken two, went to seep and never worke up. if she had not got these i believe she would be still here to day. 
Amanda Brennan  
Samantha Lesak I lost a friend at the age of 18 due to the unknown risk factors of Oxycontin!! 
Erin Nicponski This drug almost ruined my life, and has taken out many of my friends. It is worse than heroin. It needs to be taken off the market.  
Anonymous I lost my best friend and first love to oxycontin in 2006. This drug has not only destroyed his life, but my life and everyone who loved him.  
Anonymous  
Julie Zurcher  
Anonymous 44.txt;5;10 
christopher cox i want my aunt off of .. oxy contin, she is a drug addict ! she has a baby now that 1 month old 
christie Williams  
sue williams  
Janet McLain  
Anonymous 43.txt;5;10 
renee cox i have a family relative.. whom i love very much .. and i went to stay with her for 3 weeks ..to help her have her 1st baby .. and ..she had a high risk doctor .. because she has been on oxyconitin and roxy conitin through out the whole prenancy .. the little baby girl was born with with drawls .. and was given methadone and still is given methadone twice a day ... i stayed with my relative for 3 weeks .. the baby was dis charged after 2 weeks in nicu .. and the babies mother is a full blown drug addict , that snorts her meds always .. she takes 2 or 3 times the amount that is prescibed and buys them off the street. as well as getting her scrip every month. the baby .. needed me .. i am having a family meeting .. in a few days and we are all going to plan an intervention .. btu i think .. this relative .. will not ..buy into our intervention. at all !she is in denial.. i am the bad guy now for telling everyone. i can sleep for any nights since i have been home. i love that little girl, i was the one whom bonded with her .. not her mother.. i had to fly home after 3 weeks .. because i had to tend to my own son and family .. if there is anyone ..anywhere out there in this world..whom believes in God like i do and wants to help. please any advice is so appriciated ! .. i have to now find 3 medical doctors/interventialist .. to meet with the whole family here in nashville tn. because the family wants 3 oppinions as in what to do.. i think that is stupid . but .. i am doing this and going to try and find these 3 people tomorrow.my brother wants me to find 3 so we have 3 oppinions .. in which .. iwould assume that all 3 will be advising the same thing.. would you say ?? will someone please tell me thats what would happen.. basically same things would be said. i have been dealing also with a family whom is in denial.. and i have had to be the BAD guy ..and shock all of them into reality .. ever since i have been back in nashville.. i am trying to get all of them together and telling them if they are not going to be in this all the way .. then stay away through out this .. all will prob attend .. except for 2 that are living out of state. but the real important question here is .. will they only hurt this drug addicted afmily member more and her new baby .. so should i stop pushing ??? because the one i called when i knew this family member now is a drug addiict and i told .. about what had transpired during the 3 weeks of me neing with the baby and the mother of the baby .. this person i told whom promised not to tell , turned right around and called the drug addict and told her everythin i said. now for the drug addicted mother to only try and hide things more from us .. and to dis own me .. and my mom told her and my mom knew the deverity of this situation and had vee promised me she would neevr tell her and that we had to only come from love and help her .. as i asked my mom and as she promised. now .. do i really want this disfunction family to help.. one of their family members ??? i dont know folks .. to me thats a close call. what do i do ?????  
Barbara J Holt I also Had a very dear, beautiful, and loving Granddaughter (18) die from oxycontin in April 2007. It is a horrible, Dangerous and nasty drug that has caused countless deaths. So sorry for your loss I know exactly how you feel.  
Julia Connelly  
Amy Day  
Anonymous  
blair newman  
sylvia fox  
Barb  
Lori Davis  
v simmons PLEASE BAN OXYCONTIN. WE DO NOT NEED IT. 
Leslie Merrick Working in the substance abuse field, I recognize that this drug is a terrible problem. My heart goes out to all those who have lost loved ones. Education is our main weapon against this drug. I hope we can continue to do just that. 
angela mathews  
Tawni Porcaro  
Katie Nichols I lost my little brother on June 4, 2009 to a drug overdose. They found morphine in his body, rather it was oxycontin or heroin it is all the same to me, it all started with his oxycontin addiction. Heroin was just a cheaper oxycontin. My brother was 27 and left behind 3 kids and a family that has been torn apart.  
andrew alder  
alec jenson  
Suzanne Watson  
Dottie Wilkerson  
Steven Hansgen  
Janni Williams  
Shelby A. Friend  
Debbie Prokopis I lost my son this year 2-8-09 because of this drug  
Anonymous  
Randall Erskine  
Anonymous  
Gary Anderson  
kelly How many have to die before the government does something about this killer drug? 
Donna E Webster The drug is basically a death sentence. Once you are on Oxy it is almost impossible to stop using. This drug is for the dying patient and is misused in every aspect of the medical field. The general public is totally unaware of how lethal a drug this is. I do this in memory of my nephew BJ Colbert and for every other mother that has lost a child to this Monster of a drug.  
Paul Grethel My best friend lost his loving and talented son to OxyContin. He was given the drug by another "friend," and became hooked on them. Three months later he was getting treatment and was clean for 3-4 months. This honor student graduated from high school, which for a while didn't look good, but he made it. A week later he made a mistake and took another dose, and it killed him inside his "friend's" truck. This was all caught on video tape in back of a convenience store. While this young man lay dying, his "friend," his "friend's" mother (who was called to the scene), and his "friend's" grandfather (who was called to the scene), stood by and watched. This young man was a friend of that entire family, but they didn't love him enough to help him in time because they didn't want the son/grandson to get in trouble. Oh, and did I say that the family is politically connected? This drug is so dangerous; it needs to be banned. 
Maryann Jacoby All of our children and family members are precious to us. We value their lives. Please stop the makers of this drug, NOW. Pain can be controlled by other means. Our prayers are sent out to all the families who have lost a loved one. God bless you all. 
Ernie Vidinha  
Anonymous I have a 25 year old daughter who was prescribed this medication and has struggled with the addition from this horrible drug for the past 2 years. My hope and prayer is that God will deliver her from this awful cycle and that this drug would be banned!! 
Leslie Harp  
Joan Strauss  
Denise Borosak To all you have supported and to all that will continue to Support! Love to you all! Dee 
Deborah LeMar  
Hallie Orlowski  
Sharon Perry  
Roseann O'Brien I live in a neighborhood that has been ravaged by oxycontin. I am a teacher and I have witnessed my school be consumed by the results of drug use. There is a drug related death at least monthly in our student body. The saddest part of all...I am a first hand witness to the effects of oxycontin on my son and his friends. Bright, beautiful young men and women who now spend their waking hours planning ways to get more oxycontin. I have seen the stillness of death as oxycontin finally wins the war and takes a young life. It is time we all take a stand.  
Martin & Tina Nuss  
Anonymous Ex-girlfriend died 9/6/09. Sister and Dad and stepmom said it was this oxycontin OD. She was 43. Very sad for all. I didn't know how bad this situation was till I saw your website. I loved her but things didn't work out -- it was a long time ago, she was young then and very pretty. I feel terrible for her family and her husband. I felt honored that they had me come to the funeral. Maybe this may help some other young girl somewhere. 
Kenneth J. Kriske My son is in the hospital right now in a comma from an overdoss of oxycotton. 
Blayde Stone May the truth about "Oxycontin's addictive properties be revealed to the world", and that we all do our part in stopping this "Chemical Plague" that has come upon us !! That is our Prayer........ 
Janet Stone Our children are literally dying from the abuse of this drug. No one thinks it will happen to them ---- until it does. 
Jonathan Horne  
Anonymous  
Kevin M Stone  
Lori Stone My son was addicted to Oxycontin. He is drug free now for 5 1/2 months.  
Anonymous  
will short This Drug took someone that was dear to my family and it broke our hearts. We Love and miss you Little Pete!!! 
Anna Why can't we pick a ay in the near future and all petition at our state houses and show them that we mean buisness...we may be able to get national attention to the matter in make some changes!!!!! 
will short  
anna costa This drug has ruined my families life!!!! 
Peg Bolduc  
Tina L Sobek I lost my son David Paul Sobek on March 14, 2008. My son David and his fiancee Melissa Edgel were both prescribed oxyContin, xanex, and methadone sfter being in a car accident. Melissa died of an accidental overdose almost a year before my son. My son went to the doctor on March 12,2008. Two days later, he never woke up again. OxyContin not onl took away my son and the biggest part of my life, but OxyContin has left my 6 year old granddaughter without parents. This has got to stop! Please! I wouldn't wish the pain that I feel in my heart every single day on my worse enemy!  
Anonymous  
Joanna Hanley RIP Neal and Jay...both young lives lost to this terrible drug. 
Jeanice In memory of Patrick Stewart. We will continue to fight for you. We love and miss you. 
Anonymous  
Janna Lee  
Irene Osborne Please get rid of this crap it has ruined my life and my family members life if it wasn't for my daughter coming into this world I would probably be dead also so please consider peoples opion 
Patricia Beck  
Lindsey Ritchie  
David Tully This needs to be completely banned !! What is the FDA thinking by keeping this legally in the pharmacies? We have enough troubles with illegal drugs in America without making one more a legal one! David Tully 
Philip B Cook  
KELLIE STEVENSON I lost my nephew a year ago to an overdose. He had started using oxy just a few months before he died. 
Cindy Meade  
shayne dye This needs to be delt with. I know too many friends that have become addicted. 
Janet Wisner  
Shannan Zimmerman I lost my oldest son to oxycontin. I never even knew what this drug was until it was too late. I never want another mother to have to go through what our family has endured because of oxycontin. It's been 2 years, he was 23 when he passed and I will never, ever want another mother to have to feel my kind of pain. 
Anonymous There is help for addicts. They can take suboxene to taper off, but it has to be under doctors supervision, and most importantly for a set period of time, like 14 days, then taper off that.. afterwards they can take Naltrexone or Revia which curbs the desire. It's a miracle. For those with good insurance or money they can go through rapid detox, the Waissman clinic (www.opiates.com) is the one that invented it for use with soldiers in Israel, andit's the best. Be careful using anyone else. Don't give up, they can't do this alone! If you have to sit on them 24/7 do it.  
Ted Allen  
John, Karen and Mike Margrave We know so many families affected by this drug in our small town. Several have died. It's important to understand that these kids and others aren't throw aways, they're not bad kids. They're kids and others that tried something and had no idea how quickly they'd be addicted. They are, and were kids with dreams for a future, kids that were on the honor rolls at their schools, plans for college. They were going to be something. They come from families of attorneys, doctors, lawyers, contractors, service workers, politicians, they go to church and not go to church.. they are everyones families. Now rather than going to college many of the young people are trying to figure out how to buy more Oxy because they don't know how to get free. Addicted with no way to detox they go online and learn that Methadone is used to detox and buy that illegally.. only to become dual addicted. They have no money to get the help they need, and most families haven't a clue their loved ones are being slowly killed. OXY SHOULD BE AVAILABLE ONLY IN CLINICAL SETTINGS, ADMINISTERED BY A PHYSICAN, PA OR NURSE. THE FINANCIAL INCENTIVE TO SELL PRESCRIPTIONS IS TO GREAT, AND IN THIS ECONOMY IT'S HAS TO MUCH ALLURE. The manufacturer should be made to pay for detox for every person addicted to their drug. They KNOW the destruction it causes but the financial reward is to great.  
Whitney Richter  
Timothy R This is a killer lets join the fight to stop the killing and addiction 
Robin Dye  
elias santiago when i first found out about oxy i hated it most of my friends were strung out.. then i decided to do it with a couple friends who have done it for a while. i liked it so it started out as a weekend thing for me. then i found my self doing it for weeks at a time. an when i stopped i got sick so i started doing it every day just so i wouldn't get sick. an when night i overdosed.. i was only taking for breaths a minute and no one could wake me up i was basically dead. then my friend called my family an my father called the paramedics... the paramedics tried to revive me but they couldn't. so my friend told the ems people i was on a whole 40 milligram opana which is oxy with morphine and is also alot stronger then regular oxy.and it ruined a friendship of five years my family didn't trust me they were just very disappointed an the worst thing is when i over dosed it was on my girl friends birthday, an lost alot of other good friends.but in general its a horrible drug when people abuse it an it need to be banned immediate  
TERRI GRAVES Most of the young adults and my sons old friends are addicted to oxycontin or have started using herion because they can not afford the oxycontin from the dealers. I will do whatever I can to ban oxycontin to market. There is no reason people in pain or dying of cancer can not use morphine. It comes in time release tablets and instant release and does not create the addict or withdrawl like oxycontin does. The only use for oxycontin is the market getting rich my selling it to the pharmacy. Please stop the production of this horrible drug. Please give me direction to help ban this drug. Sincerely, Terri Graves 
sandra miller  
lottie presley  
Margaret Horn  
Sharon Mullady My son Daniel Mullady passed Aug.24 from taking drugs. I know it was an accident. My heart is broken, this was by baby and he was only 22. I feel like someone did surgery on me with the anthesia. I want to help with what ever I can to reach people and let all be aware these things are real that this is no joke. Sharon Mullady 
Lisa H My son is severly addicted to this drug. He and many many young people are losing the will to live a so called normal life. Thjey live to get and use this drug. They smoke it inject it and do what ever they can to be high. The pain clinics are at every corner and many adults are selling this poision to our children out of greed. I can honestly say that I think 50 or more percent of our young people are addicted and are killing themselves and those who love them. PLEASE BAN THIS DRUG TO THE PUBLIC!!!! 
Stefanie one of my family members became highly addicted 2 this drug it caused alot of grief in our family i think they should really ban this drug for good. 
Anonymous My son is addicted to oxycontin. In 2003 my younger brother died of a overdose of heart meds. he was 52. In 2004 I had a 18 year old. friend of my son's, die in my basement from a overdose of oxycontin. In 2005 my father left the hosp for the last time with two pages of prescription drugs. I am witness to side effects and cost. The worst of it, with all his hosp. stays and prescription drugs they only seemed to make him worst. By the time he died, he had 2 open heart surgeries, diabetes, a leg amutated, prostate cancer, staph infection, and was nearly blind from laser. Irony he die in 2005 in hospice with all the oxycontin and morphine he needed. Finally my Mother, to say the least, she was depressed, in two years loss her husband and son. So she went to bed and wouldn't get up after so much lasix, her kidneys shut down. Six months after my father, she died in hopice with morphine and oxycontin, We have been fighting my son's addiction since 2004,maybe before that, thats just when his Father and I found out, with the death of his friend. Please stop killing people!!!  
Jackie Mackenzie  
J Beezy In loving Memory of Daniel F. Walter! You will always be remembered in our hearts! 
J Beezy OxyContin is a very powerful and addicting drug. My older siblings have been addicted to this drug at one point in life, and so have I. Please take my advice and help sign this to ban this drug from the market! This past year my neighbor has passed away from mixing oxycontin with xanax one of the most deadly combinations in all of prescription drugs! 
Corrine Kocian  
Deborah Campanelli PLEASE.PLEASE. LISTEN TO US WHO HAVE BEEN HURT BY IT. PLEASE LISTEN. PLEASE. 
Billy Butkiewicz My good friend killed himself a few days ago. He was going through major withdraw symptoms after being off Oxycontin for just 2 days when he hung himself in his basement. I will do whatever I can to stop this drug from being on the market.  
Cindy Edwards  
Anonymous Purdue Pharma needs to stop production of this drug. It is a killer. 
Lisa Pellechio I agree they do not need these pills on the streets! I remember yrs. ago they stopped making Lemmon 714 Qualudes, y do we need such hard core drugs and so easy to get. Ask any teenager in Jr. or Sr. High and I can bet they know where to get them! So sorry for anyones loss. What is it going to take to stop this from happening? 
Sharon Kotchetovsky Our loved one started using oxycontin recreationally last year and in less than 2 months moved to heroin. He was immediately addicted and using 4-5 times a day within 1 month. We were able to rescue him and get him into rehab which cost us several thousand dollars. He is once again in recovery after another period of using and 60 days in jail followed by 21 days in rehab. Please consider the dangerous deadly effect of this highly addictive drug and the millions of dollars that have yet to be spent trying to save those who have become addicted to oxycontin. 
Linda Guran While taking OxyContin for "recreational purposes",my daughter crashed her car--thank goodness no one was injured. It's been almost 1 1/2 years and she is still trying to get back on track. She was introduced to the med by "friends"; I have a friend who had been prescribed up to 100 pills for post-op surgery. He never took one but then those pills sit in a medicine cabinet just waiting for someone to experiment; It's the worst med and I don't understand why it is still allowed to be on the market. 
Debra Reinert Too many deaths & lives ruined from this drug. Stop the distribution now. 
Ranae Nicol I suffer from chronic pain and know how easy it is to get this drug.... I fortunately could not take it, I have seen friends and family die from this drug there are other options. Remove it PLEASE!!!! 
Miranda Welker OxyContin is the devil's work, it has taken over so many people. i am eighteen years old and there are already a handful of people i know who are addicted to oxycontin and are the very same age as I. What doctors don't understand when their handing those pills out is their handing death out. I can't explain the ammount of pain it causes to see someone transform into a completely different person, they change so much after being addicted to it you barely even know that person anymore. My Family has dozens of drug addicts. My mother was an addict, my father an alcoholic and addict, the majority of my aunts and uncles are strung out on something. I've realized in eighteen years that i never want that to happen to me. Many do not get the advantage of experiencing things so early in life, instead their experiencing addiction because doctors want to give painkillers to people with a minor toothe ache. it's fuckin rediculous. I am hurting, oxycontin is taking my boyfriend of 3 years away from me. i love him to death but i cant sit and watch it take him over, so what choice do i have? leave... much easier said than done. so for the past year i've been walking around feeling like a bomb is going to explode inside of me a bomb full of anger and disgust. I bet the doctors would find it a little disturbing to hear that probably more than half the poeple who have posession of oxycontin are snorting them instead of taking them like their suppose to be taken. FUCK YOU STUPID DOCTORS AND FUCK WHOEVER CREATED OXYCONTIN BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE A FUCKING EPEDEMIC PRETTY SOON. 
Dale Talbot My step brother had been taking it for his wrist and got addicted and unfortunately he overdosed and was found dead in his bed from an oxycontin overdose. It is a very deadly drug. People say they can handle it and take it as prescribed but the addiction factor may take part and all it takes is one time and your done. PLEASE PLEASE take this drug off the market...whomever this is being directed towards, think about it..what if there is in instance in YOUR life in the future and you have a loved one that dies from an overdose and you didn't ban this drug. You'd feel HORRIBLE...but im sure your thinking. "it wont happen to me, or my family" but think again, because thats exactly EXACTLY what I said, and look what happened to a family member of mine. No one can predict the unfortunate events in the future, IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. DJ 
Amy Hodgins  
Amanda Bennett Please please please sign this! This drug is dangerous and should no longer be distributed! I've seen how it hurts people and I want it to stop!!!  
Kathleen Maltby oxycontin ruined my life 
Rebecca Leach I support a ban of distribution of this very dangerous drug. 
DONNA BURKE Destroys lives. 
Anonymous My wife is on oxy-cotton and is runing scared and confused, but it is leagle so she dose not think it is a problem. Even though she is lives in a world of fear, and ruled by the oxy-cotton demon. 
David Jones My Stepson died of an accidental overdose from this chemical in June of 2009. He was only 20 years old. This chemical is more available than any other street drug I have ever seen, and it is deceptively deadly when abused. I hope no family has to suffer for the sake of Big Pharma profits. This drug should be banned.  
Angela France Please ban these drugs it is killing people and tearing apart families all over the world 
Debbie Vosburgh I pray to God that this drug comes off the market. I have watched my sons life be turned in to pure hell. He has a severe back problem and he was prescribed Oxys. He was so addicted that it ruled his life. By the grace of God he went to a medical detox. It has only been 12 days since he went to detox. My son could have died. As a mother you know the pain of watching your child die a little everyday.That is what this drug does. My heart breaks for every family member who has lost someone due to this drug. I lost my older son due to a car accident there were no drugs involved. I know the pain and grief of loss. This is even harder to live in the fear of your child dying ,you feel like you are burying them daily. I listen to the fears of terroist destroying millions of people. What better way to destroy millions at a time then to get them addicted on this killer drug.  
mark innes  
Sherry MacDonald This nees to be stopped it is ruining lives!  
Cynthia Kofford  
donald hopwood ive lost friends to this drug and it about time for it to stop. 
Natasha Trau  
Marcia Stumpo  
Anonymous PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP.,  
Anonymous my precious grandaughter became addicted to oxy at age 15. she died of od 2 years ago.my heart is broken,my daughters heart is broken she was a such a lovely girl whom everyone that met her loved her  
Kelly Dougherty  
Megan Schroeder  
Alyssa Bretz  
Brianna Orlando  
jennifer Borwick  
Pam Talbot this comment is to SERIOUSLY....you are very uneducated if you think that it is a combination of drugs..IT ISN'T...MY BOY DIED FROM ONE FLIPPIN PILL SO PLEASE DO NOT INSULT MINE OR ANYOTHER PARENT THAT HAS LOST A CHILD DUE TO THIS HIDOUS DRUG.... 
Dawn Rosenmayr My nephew had 5 doctors prescribing him oxycotin..and he got hooked for 9 months and went to jail for stealing a body board...8 months sober this week...a TERRIBLE drug, once you try it, your hooked, then the kids find out, they can sell it for 1000's of dollars ...one thing leads to another.....drugs, money, addiction, jail, recovery..and the rest of there lives is Just say NO 
sarah lange  
Anonymous  
Martin Downs my son is shooting up oxy,100mg morphine, and meth he is 21 is there any thing we can do 
Kim Wallace My 18 year old nephew got addicted to oxycontin and died. Too many people get this prescription to easily and sell to others. Many teens buy these and get addicted to them as do adults. Oxycontin is quickly addicting and is killing our loved ones. I believe that this drug should be banned as it is abused not only by the consumer but by doctors prescribing to easily. It is lethal 
Anonymous my grandson almost died with the ability to get 1000 of these from doctos 
Donna Shine Please Ban Oxycontin, and all other brain damaging drugs.  
Britt Stanfield  
Ashley L I agree 100% This drug SHOULD be BANNED!!! I lost my cousin over 2years ago. Its a horrible horrible drug. I felt bad for him and I feel bad for the people who have lost loved ones due to this drug, and i also feel sorry for the people who may lose a loved one if we dont get this s#!t off of the streets. May my cousin REST IN PEACE Ian Michael Zimmerman 
Jean Badali  
James R Coyne I can't believe it hasn't been made illegal yet! Especially with all the destruction it has done already! I've watched it tear a whole town apart! Not only is it killing the ones addicted,its killing innocent victims who happen to be in the way of a junkie getting money for another score! Not to mention the family of the addict. No matter how good you raise a child they still can fall victim to the wickedness of the world :(  
Brian Tremper  
Rose Price Perscription drug addiction is taking this society down to the depths of hell.I have seen the awful toll it takes on the victims and there families. I have taken custody of children in our family because the birth parents cannot think of anything but there next fix. Thier need becomes so great that they put themselves and thier children, siblings, parents and others in harms way. They will beg,borrow, steal, sell themselves and even thier children, to aquire this drug. My niece was in the goverment methadone program for over 5 years, without any results except another addiction. My family and two other families close to me have had loved ones die this year from overdoses of oxycontin combined with other perscription drugs. The parasitic MD's that provide their prescritions,need to be stopped,their rights to practice revoked and be prosecuted as accesaries to murder. As a society , we can no longer afford to ignore this epidemic and the medical communities greedy part in it.  
freedude banning this drug would be one of the greatest things that could happen in this world today, i strongley believe that it's an attack upon america, just like a war with all the killing and mangling lives with it's destruction .something has to be done about it. and soon!!! i have seen some of the most well people go to the dr and get this drug just to turn around and sell for big bucks,they will take a few just in case the doc draws blood to ck for it in thier system.and insurance co. are paying for oxy, so the dealer hits it big in money,my family has broke up over the use of this drug ,trust me when i say it changes people once they are on it ,lets dont stop until it's off the market .enough lives lost. 
Anonymous Important lesson learned from Quaaludes At one time, the sleeping pill Quaalude was as big a problem in the United States as heroin and cocaine. But then, in a matter of just a few years, it disappeared. If the successful strategy the DEA pursued in cracking down on Quaaludes had been followed when meth surfaced a few years later, experts say it is unlikely the meth epidemic would ever have happened. During the 1970s Quaalude became a widely abused sleeping pill. The key chemical needed to make Quaalude was methaqualone, first developed in India in the 1950s as an anti-malarial drug. By the mid-60s, U.S. doctors began prescribing Quaalude as a non-addictive alternative to barbiturates. However, by the late '70s, illegal use of the drug had surged, especially among teenagers. Users would "'lude out," combining the drug with alcohol to achieve a drunken, sleepy high. Overuse could lead to respiratory arrest, delirium, kidney or liver damage, coma, and death. As the abuse reached its peak, it was linked to overdoses, suicide attempts, injuries, and car accidents. The drug supply came from legitimately-manufactured pills diverted into the illegal drug trade and from counterfeit pills coming from South America and illegal labs within the United States. By 1981, the DEA ranked Quaalude use second only to marijuana and estimated that 80 to 90 percent of world production went into the illegal drug trade. Stress clinics, where customers paid about $100 cash for a Quaalude prescription from a licensed physician, became popular in urban areas. The DEA estimated that the 20 million pills on the street in 1980 would double in just a year and match heroin's popularity. And yet, within just a few years, the DEA got the problem of Quaalude abuse under control. By 1984, Quaaludes had all but disappeared from the U.S. marketplace. Gene Haislip, the DEA's number three man at the time, was the idea man behind shutting down Quaaludes. He came up with the solution to go after Quaaludes at their source: the chemical manufacturers of methaqualone powder in West Germany, Austria, Hungary, and China. Haislip traveled around the world, convincing the government of every country with a factory that made the chemical to shut down its trade. "Well, it took some time, but in the end, the Colombians could no longer get their drug powder," Haislip tells FRONTLINE. "They didn't know what to do. They gave it up. We eliminated the problem. We beat them." Separately, doctors had already started turning to other alternatives to treat insomnia because the sleeping pill carried the stigma of an abused drug. Finally, Congress banned domestic production and sales of the prescription version of Quaalude, which was made by just one company, and President Reagan signed the legislation into law in 1984. If lawmakers eliminated Quaaludes, then certainly then can eliminate OXY!!  
Deborah Earle I would like to say from a front view stand point working in the Nursing Field I have seen so many lost souls deteriate from this DRUG as well as others in it's Class. I feel as though many of these "Doctor's" that are not only prescribing the Drugs for their patients but for themselves as well should Lose their License to Practice. As soon as a person complains of PAIN they put them on Vicodin or Oxy no questions asked and then when the patient becomes dependant on them they no longer want to deal with them and their addictions so they refer them out to pain management...We as a Community NEED to put a stop to this and stand up for our Loved ones. 
WendyMae Hanson  
Marcia Andersen  
leslie faulkerson  
Allison Cartwright  
Janet Gibson This drug is so dangerous. My son became addicted in junior high because one of his friends dads was being prescribed massive amounts of it and then sending it to school for his sons to sell. We have battled this addiction for far too long and I am very angry that young people have died from it. No where else on earth would we put up with something that kills and destroys like this drug does. What gives? People who are not affected by it think it is a choice the addict makes. It doesn't take long before it's not a choice any more, but an addiction. This drug needs only to be administered by a physician or medical professional in a controlled setting. Under no circumstances should this drug ever be in someones home where it has the potential to get in the wrong hands. It is comparable to having a loaded gun in your house where children are playing!  
tony kynych  
Dr. Donna Campbell DC/RN//C.Ad./I-MHC  
Anonymous  
ex-junkie Something has got to be done, before this drug wipes out us all.So many people consider this drug ok caus its prescribed, and so called legal, and the ones with the scripts don,t get busted because they are obtaining it legally, but then distribute it to anyone and everyone,get people hooked, then raise the prices, its a evil evil wicked drug 
robert jedlicka  
anonymously pissed off at our system!! oxycotin is a killer, no way around this FACT!! i HAVE WATCHED MANY FRIENDS DIE , SOME FROM JUST TAKING ONE PILL,I have a ex-husband, ex fiance son and myself fallin for the drugs powerful ways its destroys everthing in its path and must be stopped, or it will stop us 
Jackie Jedlicka This Drug desroys lives, seperates famililies, kills and mauls loved ones, and kills our young, middleaged, and old.Everyone can be a victim to Oxycotin, it is over prescribed for minor pain, such as a sprained ankle, anyone can doctor shop, and do, and succeed, Doctors are making a fortune killer our youth and old, and no one actually realizes the bite it has till you are a victim tourself, i have laid on the couch in misert 6 days trying to kick this addiction before seaking a rehab twice, you shake, get brutally ill, without this drug, on the street people are paying astronomical amouts for just one lousy pill, once the dealers know they have you hooked, its all over man, i,m 45 yrs old, and it got a grip on me, 3 years felt like eternity, by the grace of god and support i finally kicked it, but it was a horrible ride, and mentally i still battle it every f--in day and i went to rehab in 2004, this drug needs to be stopped, it is known as goverment made heroin- and that is exactly what it is!!!!! 
jessica sweat i checked into rehab 2 years ago because of an oxy contin addiction. i've seen friends die from it, or move straight on to heroin. i saw it turn my cancer-ridden mother into a drug addict. it's time to ban this stuff for good. 
katelyn dyer  
Anonymous This must be Baned my 2 Son's have ruined their lives. They have no money no life at all!!! There are only 29 years olds and needs to stop immediaetly so other parents will be safe from this devil????? This is not a Drug to get on the Streets or elsewhere at the Pharmacy by your DR. We are Warning all PEOPLE out there Please do not use or the nightmare will begin by death, Loss of Money, LOSS OF FAMILY!!! Please stop this as Im going Legal wise to stop this along with 10,000+ people behind me to sign the Petition also. Thank you 
deborah pinto  
Marcelo Cardoso I have worked as a drug counselour for over 10 years and have followed the path of destruction of this so alleged "lega" drug. For me it's straight EVIL that this drug still being legally sold in America. Some drug companies making $ money with the death of our youth! That is repulsive!!!!! Marcelo Cardoso 
Anonymous Ban it!  
Katrina Edgar This drug has killed 7 teenagers in the past year, in my middle class suburb. It is time to ban this drug!!! 
Teodorasny Very interesting information. 
Brandon J Hintz  
Jori Bell  
Benjamin Magnie  
Matthew Golden  
Anonymous Please Stop this Drug it is Terriable out there. 
Coleen Fletcher  
Jaromir Dub  
Eva Pertlikova  
Brian Hanson I have 2 brothers just came off this drug but almost lost one due to sucidal thoughts an actions caused by the withdrawls. I also still have 2 older brothers that are still using it and they are really not the brothers i used to know before they started taking oxycontin. This is a terrible drug that needs to be banned forever 
bob abruzzese  
Mae THibodeau  
Tim Bullock Oxycontin is a killer and should be banned, everyone should join the fight. If you have'nt been personally affected you may be soon. Oxycontin is too easily obtained, too easily abused. Please visit our site www.oxykillskids.com for more information on this epidemic. 
Joyce Hanson  
Glenn Hanson Oxycontin was prescribed by our home town Doctor without any warning about the the powerful addictive qualities of this drug. It took 2 1/2 years of pure hell for by son to come off this drug and get his life back. This drug should only be used for terminal Ill people and people with no quality of life without pain relief.  
Jeremy J Hanson  
Anonymous  
shelly albury I was addicted to the drug for a period but I got clean (thanks to a dui). But now I see the true dangers and the lure of this drug and it needs to be kept away from all esp our children who don't know the true dangers of this drug 
Kandis Golden  
Laura Friedlander  
Ember Ford  
Anonymous My son was addicted to oxycontin. We are very blessed that he is now a former addict and clean for 1 year. The drug is a killer and needs to be taken off the market immediately. 
Nancy Golden We have a daughter who is addicted to this drug, deals it, and now is snorting it. We have seen a friend's son overdose and die from this drug. We don't want to watch the same happen to our daughter. Our hearts go out to anyone and everyone that this drug has touched. 
Brandi Billing  
Rebecca Beebe  
max kofford Personally i dislike the concept of any sort of addictive drugs in general. I view addiction as a form of slavery to the drug. If this country stands for antislavery then why does any sort of addictive materials that enslaves the user to the drugs be allowed? 
Emily I lost my boyfriend, Jason Lloyd Tudor, on May 24th 2008 due to this "demon." The distribution of oxycontin needs to be put to rest. I have suffered as well as watched his family go through so much pain due to our loss. PLEASE BAN THIS HORRIBLE DRUG! RIP Jason. We love you and miss you. In your memory Baby. 
Susan Marshall  
Kelly Fidelis  
Joel Hanson  
Laura Cinquini I have lost someone due to oxycontin addiction. Please listen to our request. 
Jeanette M. McLaughlin This drug is ruining the lives of Americans and killing those who thought since the doctor prescribed it, it should be safe to use. Nothing is farther from the truth. 
Tony Richard  
Donna Teava I lost a friend to this drug...accidental overdose.  
Shellie Seyferlich I have recently been devasted to learn that my great nephew has given in to this powerful drug. We will never be content until something is done about controlling the spread of this drug whether by prescription or on the streets. 
martha e malic Hello, I fully support the ban of this Oxycontin. This is a deadly drug, that has taken the lifes of so many people amd ruined the lifes others. The use of this drug is out of control. Please Plesae Please stop the distribution of this drug.  
Sherry Sagraves I have several family members who are receiving oxycontin from a "Pain Management" doctor, 2 of them do not even use oxycontin for pain but use them as a source of income. the other is addicted. Using the pills like cocaine. No one who is actively dying should be given this "medication" it is no different than street drugs, addictive and dangerous.  
Amber-Lee Gillman no one should ever have to suffer the pain that a mother does when the lose a son to drugs. accidental overdose is so common now a days. you and any one else you know should influence other to stay away from any type of drug. even if it is over the counter med. always turn the offer down. signed with much love, respect and condolences, Amber-Lee Gillman  
Donna Couvillier My husband became addicted to this drug after surgery. We had a time to get him off this. It is bad and absolutely should be ban from marketing. 
Elizabeth Jefferson Yes please ban this drug. I have a child addicted to this drug and life has been hell ever since. 
Michael Grow Please ban. It is extremely addictive, It took me almost 2 years to get off this drug. 
Robin Grow OxyContin, in my opinion is being distributed to far too many people for minor issues. I agree the doctors have been abusing their authority to write prescriptions for this drug. This drug was created for critically injured, ill people. Cancer, severe injuries, not a common headache, sore thumb and the like. I is extremely addictive and should be pulled from the market. (really it shouldn't have ever been available). We have enough proplems with codiene, morphine, etc. getting into the hands of our children. No matter your age, you are usually someone's child, mother, father, sister or brother. 
Anonymous This needs to be banned now! The killing of so many people and the government allowing it makes me sick! 
Anonymous  
Joan Rescigno My son died from a therapeutic dose of oxycotin mixed with only a few drinks of alcohol. Please ban this drug that is taking so many lives of "good" people that should have lived a long, long time. In memory of my son, Ian Harper. 
Christian Craig  
Dallin Craig  
Constance Campbell 1. My cousin just OD from this drug 2. A really close friend of mine has been addicted to OXY's for 4 years or more and has spent thousands of dollars for it on the black market. 3. I have meet a hand full of CHILDREN 12 to 18 yrs of age that are addicted to oxy's... Two of them were 13 years old. 
Eula Hall My Grandson, Joseph Hall IV, 24 years old when he Died Sept. 10th 2009. Autopsy was OxyContin. I hope and pray something is done to enlighten these young people.This is the hardest thing I have ever gone through.  
Michael Williams I have seen firsthand the destruction Oxycontin can do and I personally know how it effects people. After a car accident last year I was prescribed oxy for my back pain. I understand the reality of getting off of them and the addiction they can bring. Fortunately for me I did not get hooked on them. I saw and my doctors told me what kind of a drug I was dealing with. But for so many others the realization comes too late and ends up in tragedy WAY TO OFTER! Please change the way it can be prescribed. 
Louise RU Merrill My son is an opiate addict. He has been using for 6 yrs. His addiction lead him to heroin and serious near OD twice. He is 26 yrs old. Doesn't anyone get it? I am personally taking this issue on in my community. I will save a kid today and yell as loud as I can until I am heard. I started Friends of Addicts Support Group on Facebook. ~ Ru 
Dawn Talbot Southwick To my "using" loved ones...you could be next...PAY ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Kassy Fenn  
Sandra Apolinario  
hugo e. ramos  
Kerri Simas  
America Savedra My husband is a big user of oxycotin and im scared that this drug is going to kill him! This drug has torn our whole family apart. Please help  
Bob Tamboli Too much crime, death, and sadness associated with this drug. Please ban the production of Oxycontin. Thank You Bob Tamboli  
Kim Blue I was not aware of the effects and ultimate sacrifices of this legal, easily available drug in our local pharmacies. A friend of mine lost her son to this drug and to support her and everyone else who has expereienced the lost of loved ones, I am signing this petition to stop the producing and selling of OxyContin. Thank you, Kim 
Anonymous PLEASE! Help our children. 
mary jean hensley My son is in recovery as I sign this very important petition. Our community has seen a huge rise in drug use and it must be stopped.Crime is up our jails are filling up deaths are up and we are fed up. Oxycontin certainly has there place - they are to be given to 4th stage cancer patients. Pain that ppl will never be able to escape. It needs to be regulated much stricter if they aren't going to do away with it. My son was on Suboxone and that can only be prescribed by Drs. who get certified for that particular drug-a contolled substance. How can this be any different? For all who have lost a loved one, you have my deepest sympathy, for those coping with this awful epidemic ? fight!! fight like you've never fought before!! To get off of it or to save the one you love who is on it or to put an end to this synthetic heroin. God bless you all 
marilyn giles doctors give it out to often and to two many people that really don't really need it and this is why so many people are addicted to it any more and also they just complain to the doctor and say they hurt and then just turn around and sell it.sothe doctors have help make it get out of hand. give them something different for the pain  
michelle  
blakejones ban oxycontin before it takes more lifes 
sara jones  
Kirenia Milan Please take this drug of the marker, enough death it has caused. 
Tyler Koenig On aug 10th of 2009 my mom and I found my brother laying on the floor dead because of oxycontin. It was the worst thing any family could ever find as the fate for their mother son brother etc... We as a people need to get this disturbing drug that is a replacement for heroin... Tyler E Koenig 
Pam Talbot I found my son laying on his bedroom floor two doors away from mine..on 08-10-09 from Oxycodone. Had this drug been pulled from the market my son Joseph T Hall IV would still be alive. I died with my son that day and i will forever have a huge hole in me. I am so angry at the present moment trying to uderstand how such a powerful drug can make it way to the street. But that is a stupid remark as well we all know between the Pharmacutical compaines and doctors prescribing where else do we expect it go. It is all about money, GOD FORBID, but if they were to lose one of their children to this drug then maybe it would be removed. My son was a wonderful boy and in 24 years the only time we were ever apart is 2 years while he went to school in Montana and couple of weeks when younger visiting his grandmother, other than that we have always been together. Can someone please explain to me how this can happen!!!! 
Patricia Folchert We work with local Celebrate Recovery program and witness firsthand what addiction to prescription drugs can do to someones life. Please quit allowing money to make these decisions, these lives lost are priceless. 
Anonymous  
Anonymous I want to ask the FDA how they can sit back and let this happen to us. You WATCHED America become addicted, and still you do nothing. It is FAR too easy to get prescription painkillers in America and things need to start changing. I have lost many friends and loved ones to this drug, and as a young adult in this country, it disgusts me that no one will take this issue seriously enough to do something about it. What exactly are you WAITING for to happen? Don't tell me you haven't seen the evidence of what this drug has done. 
Lita Necaise  
Lisa Beitzel RIP JWG you are loved and missed by all of us - Aunt Lisa, Richard and Anna 
Andrea Kittler NOW is good!!!!! 
Lisa Beitzel  
Damian Ladue My girlfriends brother Mark died because of drugs like this...ban them!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
James Travis  
Beverly Travis  
Libor B.Kittler  
kaelyn cooper My brother just recently passed away in January from trying Oxycontin for the first time. I miss him more and more everyday. He was only 17 yrs old. I will cherish all the memories he gave me until I see him again. 
Dana Kittler My son Mark, 26, died March 6, 2009 due to the accidental overdose of presciption medications. He has struggled with addiction since high school . He died of a combination medications such as methadone, oxycontin and xanax. He was a healthy boy with no health problems and no injuries that would even begin to have a doctor writting such strong pain mediations. After he was found dead in his friends house the next morning, there was another prescription in his possesion for 240 oxycontin 30mg tablets written by a local doctor. Then when we recieved his belongings from Pinellas County Police, we were shocked to find a listing of medications from a local pharmacy stating the dates, quantities and doctors who had prescribed these unecessary drugs. In a six month time period , Mark had been given a total of 950 Oxycodone 30mg, 120 Alprazolam 2mg, and 60 Diazepam 5mg by this single pharmacy. He also had methadone in his system at the time of his death. Something needs to be done to stop this tragic waste of young lives. These doctors are unscrupulous predators , preying on the weakness of others for personel gain. Instead of using their knowledge and capabilities to help people, they have acted as willing accomplices to murder.  
Tami Jones  
Erin Wortman  
Danielle Ruivivar  
Diana Bell  
Nan Savidge  
Kim Heminger My son's addiction to oxycotin has taken over his life. it has been a battle for the last three years. please ban this terrible drug. 
F. Garcia In the course of 1 year, my son lost his job, dropped out of college, lost his girlfriend, stole thousands of dollars from his family, became a shoplifter, became homeless, and sold off all of his belongings - all to support his Oxycontin habit. I hold the "in-the-know" physicians in our society 100% accountable for allowing this drug to be administered or prescribed outside of a hospital setting. This is truly a travesty in America. You doctors that prescribe this drug to should ashamed of yourselves. I hope the FDA bans this drug from U.S. soil. 
Sarah Wojtusik  
Patricia D. My husband was found dead on 08-16-2009. He commited suicide because he couldn't live with his addiction to Oxycontin. One of the letters he wrote said just that. It was prescribed for him 7yrs ago for a jet-ski accident. He was a very successful business owner and when he died he had nothing. Our son who is 29yrs old sobbed that his father will never know his grandchildren. A part of me feels we could have done more but in my heart I know we did what we could do. The addiction consumed him. We will never be the same. Please take this drug off teh market or at least just give it to people who are living their last days such as hospice patienst and the terminally ill. 
Joe This drug is the devil in disguise. I strongly support this ban! 
Richard Doleski this drug has ruined so many lives. it must be regulated much tighter. 
Anonymous I have been seeing people drop like flies! it makes me sick. This drug is being given out like candy. I have talked to the FDA and the representatives seem to have no clue! This has gotta be a joke. Purdue is making millions. Maybe they should quit making pens and parifinalia to sell their shit and fund some better pain relief medicine research. It's gotta go bye bye now- 
Charly It is such a shame that the US government condones such a dangerous drug. I feel so disgusted to live in a country where next to harmless drugs are illegal (Cannabis for example) and toxic, extremely dangerous drugs such as Oxycontin are legal  
Anonymous NOW I READ DJ AM TOOK A BUNCH OF OC KNOWING HE WANTED TO KILL HIMSELF, HE HAD SOME IN HIS MOUTH STILL FROM PASSING OUT, WITH USE OF OTHER DRUGS, HE DIED BEFORE SWALLOWING ALL OF THEM. HE KNEW HOW DANGEROUS THESE DRUGS WERE AND WOULD ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE SET OUT TO DO. TAKE IT OFF THE MARKET! Maybe it might even help the healthcare problem in the US (Pres. Obama). I'M UNEMPLOYED AND CANT PAY BILLS AND RUINING CREDIT, AND PURDUE IS KILLING PEOPLE AND RICH AS ANYHTHING. My adult teen is an addict, of many drugs, currently in jail (thank god-less drugs in jail), his a---hole buddy just od'd and lived on heroin...starting from OC. My heart goes out to all those suffering (and family) through any kind of addiction, I've been there twice. And great news to read those that are clean from this nasty pill and have their lives back, KEEP IT UP~ I know how difficult it is to suffer daily to stay straight. 
phil morgan  
Lori Kosinski  
Kelly Bordenca This drug from hell has ruined my life and has killed many of my friends....Im just now picking up the peices of my life. 
michael jedziniak pain meds are destroying my family. wjfe has been on oxycontin, perecots valium, and xanan for 7 years. she is no longer the same person, believes nothin,cant hold a job anymore. now my daughter i have caught stealing moms pills and snorting. they refuse help. what can i do 
BETHANY BEELER My 26 year old son died on 08/09/08 due to an overdose of oxycontin. He lost a 3 year battle with this addiction that included 4 in house rehabs, 2 out patient attempts and time in jail . Oxycontin is a terrible drug and should never be produced and every one knows it. This is all about the money that goes into every hand that touches this pill:the manufacturer, each doctor, pharmacy, insurance companies and yes every patient that sells their prescription on the street.Our countries war on drugs is just a joke. All of the information is avaliable on computer to follow this drug all the way to the streets, but oxycontin just puts too much money in too many hands. Our whole family will never be the same again and the pain we feel can not be touched by a pill.  
Bobby  
Jacqueline Alpaugh  
Denice Gipe Everyone is addicted it is out of control and has taken over our whole rural area, my son is addicted I can not beleive they can rund in town and pick up Oxys like it is soda this is just incrediable. How did it become so out of hand? Very concerned Mother 
Robert Devecchis  
Katharine Fretwell This drug is abused by way to many. It doesn't take anytime at all to become addicted. The family becomes overwhelmed and sad. Nothing makes a person stop, they keep going after the high and then when confronted blame everyone by themselves. Please, there has to be better pain meds that don't addict the patient. 
Nada M. Judge