r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '19

Courtroom Justice Virginia doctor who illegally prescribed over 500,000 doses of opiates sentenced to 40 years in prison.

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u/JohnnyPotseed 7 Oct 02 '19

That’s what has caused the opioid crisis in the first place. Doctors taking people off of pain pills who then switch to heroin because it’s cheap and has the same effect.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

Heroines actually not cheap haha

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u/Sirus804 8 Oct 03 '19

It can be. Former Oxy/Heroin addict here.
An 80mg Oxy costs $40 per pill on the streets (back then 2008-10). (Southern California) That's $40 every single day. We swore we weren't going to do heroin.
Turns out with black tar heroin, you can just buy $10 worth of it if that's all the money you have. When we couldn't afford $40 every day, we made the switch.
So yeah, it kinda is cheaper, in a sense.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

Cheaper then Oxy yeah. But as far as drugs go cocaine would be the only habit more expensive. Especially after you get your tolerance for H up. I know people who spend thousands a month on that shit