There was a recent article in the newspaper here in Sarasota Florida about the serious problem of prescription drugs being abused. It noted that the state of Florida is the highest per capita state for overdose deaths, and that Sarasota county was twice the state average. Also noteworthy was that of the 50 top oxycodone […]
As our afternoon/evening clerk came in, she immediately took a phone call. I could only hear her side of the conversation, of course, but it’s one I had been hearing all day. They were asking about Tamiflu and surgical masks.
As she got off the phone, I explained to her simply - “treat it like Oxycodone […]
Today we were informed by a customer that the shortage of oxycodone is a “big conspiracy” and that we were a part of it. People watch way too much TV, even though he was right - there is a big conspiracy and we are a part of it.
The current oxycodone shortage is the US government’s […]
We’ve seen the number of oxy/roxy calls go down a bit, but they’re being replaced. Instead, the same people (or at least the same ‘type’ of people) are asking for Percocet or Dilaudid.
I guess they’re starting to get the picture. We’re being told from our supplier (and anyone else in the know that we can […]
The calls come every day. 10, 15, 20. They’re looking for Oxycodone. They always say the same things - they’ve been calling all over the place and no one seems to have it.
It’s been many weeks since the problem started, but people don’t want to accept it. Which, of course, makes us believe that most […]