Real Vice Cops

[lady67]

Okay, everyone knows that I am a reality show junkie so today I watched this show on Spike TV.  They just busted a kid for selling 90 lortabs for $400+.  The cops said he would get a mandatory sentence of 25 years for the sale.  My questions is this, Do people actually pay that much on the street for 90 pills?  I can't imagine doing that.  I mean how do you justify to your family an expense of over $400 for no reason?

This kid also had 12 scripts in his possession for lortabs.  They wer going to check with the doctor to see if he was writing them or if they were forged.  

I thank God that I never got to the point that I had to purchase the pills on the street.  I think that would definately have been the end of my marriage.

[kim715]

Thank goodness the mother knew better.I knew a few people who would take their kid to the doctor and lie and get their kid to lie to so that the doc would prescribe a painkiller or adderall.Then they would turn around and sell it and give the kid a few dollars.Isn't that disgusting?The fact that I allowed myself to sink low enough to associate with these people is even more disgusting.Where was my head???

[lady67]

It is so sad the grip these drugs have on us.  I know that in a way we brought it on ourselves by abusing them, but I still believe that doctors are a little too quick to hand them out.  Case in point, a friend of mine took her daughter to the doctor for cramps and he gave her lortab 10 for the pain.  Can you believe it, a 14 year old and he gave her a strong narcotic like that for the cramps.  I don't understand how they can justify that, whatever happened to the heating pad and 3 advil.  I guess me or my daughters have never had cramps like that before, thank God.  Still I think it is a little bit extreme and so did the mother.

[Coolio Hernendez]

I also know about this 1st hand....Only 10% of all pain pills i've done were from a doctor..

I had this guy who was disabeld and he would sell me his perc 10's for 4 dollars a pill....Those were the good ol days....He up'ed em to 7....I have paid 10 dollars a pill and said "thank you"......I once paid 80 dollars for an oxy 80...real bad w/d and i had to do something...

Now i really try to just do the script...but they never last......I'm always making up fake bills

[lady67]

thanks for answering.  I don't know anyone who has bought them on the street and I thought that was an outrageous amount.  But if you add up all the unnecessary doctor visits, etc. just to get a script for 30, I guess it would add up pretty quick as well.

I am glad you are done with that.  It is amazing to me the things we did while in the grips of this "Devil's Candy".  It turns us into completely different people.

Susan

[kim715]

Yep people pay that.I was one of them.You can't justify it so you learn to be sneaky and deceitful.Robbing peter to pay paul,putting whatever bill you can off until next week,taking cash advances on your credit cards.I finally had to get a second job and told my husband it was to help out more with the finances,but in reality I needed the money to fund my addiction.I lied so much.I would buy things on sale and then tell my husband I paid 2 1/2 times more for them then I really did all in an effort to hide what I was spending.Around here 90 of the 5 mg vicodin would sell for $450.00 on the streets.The ones I was abusing were a little stronger.There were weeks when I would spend $120.00 every other day on pills if my script was out.WOW I'm so grateful that I'm done with all of that.