Purdue needs to be responsible in getting Oxycontin to the Pharmacies who in turn can get it to the PATIENTS who legally need and have been legally prescribed this medication! Not turn their heads when they see an increase sales of Oxycontin & going out without legal prescriptions to back up their sales. The Federal Government needs to step up and do their job as well. It can't be that hard to create a system that work's...if they really want to! Purdue also needs to allow the generic companies to produce "Oxycontin" which, in our case, makes for a $40.00/month reduction in our prescription co-pays. Of course the Generic Companies would have to follow the same "chain of command" to trace the drug from production to pharmacy and not to street dealers. This is a very serious issue which should not be so very difficult to solve. No one, however, can turn their heads, take a payoff, or a bigger company profit, if we expect to get to the solution. 4 of 4, count 4 posts back-start

Because Oxycontin is a Class 2 Drug, I cannot get more than a one months supply, I MUST BE PHYSICALLY present at every doctor's appointment in order to obtain a prescription for Oxycontin, and if the pharmacy does not have the entire amount of the drug on hand I have to go somewhere else because we are not allowed to have a partial prescription and be owed the remaining pills. I would then have to go back to my physician to get a prescription for the remaining pills! I'm mad, but I'm not really complaining so much as enlightening anyone who reads this. I, am a person in LEGITIMATE CHRONIC PAIN, with an MRI & EMG to validate the nerve problem's. I have to jump all of these hoops to get the one medication, Oxycontin, to help with my pain. These are same hoop's which are put in place to keep Oxycontin and other Class 2 prescription drugs out of the WRONG HANDS! Doesn't seem like the hoops are working the right way do they? 3 of ?

Now comes this lawsuit which is making it more than difficult for those of us who really need, legally need, Oxycontin to deal with our year in year out Chronic Pain situations!!! Last month I went to fill my prescription only to be told that they did not have any in the store. (This is a National Chain Pharmacy...not some podunk drug store.) We left thinking we could get the prescription filled at the pharmacy next door...they did not have it either...three drug stores later, with no luck, we ended up going back to my original pharmacy. We had them call all of their neighboring stores until they found one that had Oxycontin for us. Then my husband had to drive, way out of our way, to the other drug store to get my prescription filled. This happened again today, after my doctors appointment, but rather than leave we had our regular pharmacy call around 1st. We still had to drive out of our way, AGAIN, to get my pain medication, but at least we cut out the four other stores we had to try last month!

I have been in caught in a cycle of Chronic Pain for the last six years. The best pain treatment for my pain just happens to be Oxycontin. My Pain Medicine Doctors and I have tried a myriad of medications to no avail. I also went through a Spinal Cord Stimulator Trial for a week, with the stimulation wires fed up along side my spinal cord, while I was awake, out my side and to a control box that I wore on my belt to change the rate and frequency of the electrical charge being sent to my spine. The idea was to use the electrical impulses to trick the brain out of feeling the pain from a pinched nerve and feel a soothing humming/buzzing instead. The stimulator, unfortunately for me, did not work and had to be removed. My Doctor's have tried several other pain medications with nasty, aweful side effects. We decided together that I would return to Oxycontin to keep the pain, which feels like a hot, electrified piece of barbed wire is being pulled up and down on the inside of my leg and butt, from driving me into despair! 1/3

Great news! More of this drug is on the street than in the med cabinets of those the really need it. It most often leads to heroin use and is killing our children. On LI they have indicted a Dr. prescribing over 1500 scripts of this med to people he never met just to profit. These ended up in the affluent neighborhoods of Smithtown and St. James NY. Purdue has been aware of inordinate amounts of this drug being prescribed by specific doctors and reported nothing to the authorities. This is a travesty. It is basically synthetic heroin. It's bad enough that illicit drugs are on the street, and now the pharmaceutical companies are the dealers in essence. My 15 year old son is now a heroin addict and started with snorting oxycontin, should we blame him or Purdue? Worse is that Purdue paid a fine to the GOVERNMENT, of whom the pharm companies already have in their back pocket. Families of those that die or are addicted for life get nothing but pain for the rest of their lives. Reprehensible.